Senior Software Engineer, Phorest
Integrations & Partnerships
+ Employee Share Purchase Scheme
Salon management solution
Open for applications
Salon management solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Employee Share Purchase Scheme
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower and inspire salon, spa and clinic owners to grow fantastic businesses while attracting and delighting loyal clients and talented staff.
Role
Who you are
- Strong proficiency and at least 5 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design, primarily Java
- Knowledge and understanding of JavaScript, its fundamentals, and latest developments in JavaScript
- Experience in working with and building RESTful APIs (GraphQL a bonus)
- The ability to reason about trade-offs when discussing backend technologies
- Ability to inspire and motivate, to improve quality and productivity, maintaining technical innovation and excellence
- Quality & high standards really matter to us - you will focus on continually applying high coding standards, excellent attention to detail and a methodological work process
- So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch
What the job involves
- We are looking for a new Senior Software Engineer to join our Integrations & Partnerships Team
- You will join a team who are responsible for building and maintaining Phorest’s partnership platform by implementing integrations and exposing Phorest’s capabilities through our API
- This empowers developers, partners, and clients to innovate, create new solutions, and drive growth within our ecosystem
- You will be shaping the future of a high-scale, distributed system, leveraging event-driven architecture and modern cloud technologies like Docker and Serverless
- Your contributions will impact millions of users globally
- You will be solving complex problems in an environment where we look to continuously improve and learn
- We work with feature flags and continuous delivery to ensure our work gets to production as fast as possible
- Push the boundaries of modern backend development to build fast, ambitious web applications that will delight our clients
- Collaborate closely with our product team to build features that have a significant business impact
- Proactively identify bottlenecks and improve our frontend developer experience
- Work with our design team to build elegant and intuitive UI components
- Understand our business context deeply and leverage engineering knowledge to come up with creative solutions to problems
- Thrive in a small, nimble team comprising technical experts
- Prioritise quality and high standards by continually applying high coding standards, excellent attention to detail, and a methodological work process
- Demonstrate and drive proper coding techniques, including maintainability, reuse, clean code, and unit testing within the team
- Develop automated unit and acceptance tests to ensure software meets design criteria
- Never stop learning; pursue the latest technologies, seek the best solutions, and always look to improve
- Coach and help teammates through code reviews and whiteboarding sessions
- Get involved at a team level in designing and implementing solutions
- Challenge the norm and aren't afraid to voice their opinion
Our take
Annually, significant financial losses plague salons and health spas due to both no-show appointments and sluggish periods. Addressing this predicament head-on, Phorest emerges as the solution, providing salon proprietors with user-friendly marketing software.
Phorest's software allows salons to dispatch appointment reminders and promotional details to their clientele. This seemingly uncomplicated remedy remarkably curtails no-show deficits by an impressive 70% - an extremely valuable offering.
From its inception, Phorest has consistently evolved and broadened its platform, adding features for staffing management, inventory control and strategic marketing. It has also secured funding which has enabled it to confidently vie with international contenders like Zenoti and Booker on the global stage.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$12m
LATE VC
Jun 2018
$23.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $36.6m
Company benefits
- Your wellbeing is important to us - We provide private healthcare, and employee assistance program and a free online GP service (WebDoc)
- As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide an Employee Share Purchase Scheme, Pension, Life Assurance, and Income Protection
- We help you travel by providing a bike to work scheme as well as tax saver transport tickets
- We care for your family and provide Enhanced Maternity and Paternity benefits
- We grow our own timber! We provide a great learning environment including an extensive onboarding program
- Career development is important to us. We even have our own in-house Learning and Development/Business coach and many online resources including LinkedIn learning
- We don't believe in formal dress codes. We prefer causal things
Company HQ
North City, Dublin, Ireland
Leadership
Ronan Perceval
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked in hair salons, and also co-founded Demonware.
Jamie Myerscough
(Co-Founder & Director)Previously served as Phorest's CEO and Sales Director. Is currently CEO of Educogym.
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