Senior Software Engineer, GlossGenius
Platform
$160-210k
+ Equity
Tuesdays & Thursdays in-office
2 days a week in office (NYC, NY)
Business management platform for beauty salons
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Business management platform for beauty salons
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-210k
+ Equity
Tuesdays & Thursdays in-office
2 days a week in office (NYC, NY)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Gloss Genius' mission is to empower beauty salon owners to reach new heights by growing their business, boosting customer engagement, and maximising their income.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for an engineer who is passionate about building the shared frameworks, core services, and foundational tooling that empower our product teams to build better and faster
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale
- Deep technical proficiency in backend development, ideally with Kotlin and TypeScript. A willingness to learn and work with Ruby is also important as we modernize our stack
- A passion for great API design and amazing developer experiences. You see other engineering teams as your customers and are driven to build tools and services that accelerate their work
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional technology initiatives and influencing technical roadmaps. You can break down large-scale projects and partner effectively with stakeholders to deliver results
- You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, have a bias for action, and a commitment to continuous improvement for yourself and the team around you
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Application Platform team, you'll be at the heart of the developer experience at GlossGenius
- You will help us distill complexity into simple, elegant solutions that allow our engineers to focus on what matters most: delivering value to our customers
- The Application Platform team's mission is to provide a bedrock of stable, scalable, and easy-to-use services
- Your work is critical to ensuring our systems can support our rapid growth, which already includes billions in transaction volume across tens of thousands of businesses
- You'll design, build, and operate the next generation of critical backend services and distributed systems that form the foundation of our products. You will evolve our core platforms to the next level of scale and reliability
- Turn ambiguous problems into concrete, delightful developer experiences. You will streamline our services by improving CI/CD, standardizing observability, and enhancing our feature flagging system to reduce risk
- Own projects end-to-end, from technical design through implementation and rollout. You'll make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Partner closely with product engineering, infrastructure, security, and design teams to co-create solutions. You will act as a force-multiplier, mentoring other engineers and championing best practices in everything you do
- Uphold best practices and high standards for engineering and product quality in addition to mentoring newer team members to do the same
- Languages: Kotlin, TypeScript, Ruby (Rails, Sidekiq)
- Frameworks & Technologies: gRPC, Protobuf, Postgres, micronaut, jooq
Our take
Business management platforms exist for a wide range of industries, including retail, hospitality, and healthcare. However, despite a modern facade the beauty industry lacks specialised software and still runs on generic CRMs and basic spreadsheets. Recognising a gap in the market, GlossGenius has stepped in to provided a specialised business management platform for beauty salons, spas and studios.
With no competition in this niche, GlossGenius has swiftly captured a large market share, with triple-digit year on year revenue growth. It serves over 40,000 businesses (70% of which are women-owned) and has more than $2 billion in annual transactions on the platform.
GlossGenius has raised a large amount of capital in several funding rounds closed in quick succession. It is aiming to accelerate platform development off the back of its releasing of consumer experience, payment and automation products. It is well on the way to fulfilling its long-term aim of developing into the Toast of the beauty industry.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
64% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2023
$28m
SERIES C
Sep 2022
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $104.9m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially covered by GG
- Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot and Kindbody
- Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
- 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
- Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Dependent Care FSA
- Home office stipend
- Team Bonding opportunities - annual company retreat for entire team, plus virtual events throughout the year
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Experience as Research Intern for DenizBank. Investments Analyst for Goldman Sachs from 2011 to 2014.
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