Staff Backend Engineer, Fresha
3 days a week in office
Booking software for beauty & wellness brands
Open for applications
Booking software for beauty & wellness brands
201-500 employees
Open for applications
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower beauty and wellness businesses and help millions look and feel their best.
Role
Who you are
- You have consistently delivered large systems involving one or more teams’ contributions on time at a high level of quality
- You’ve had to quickly break down complex problems into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, in order to get a solid resolution faster
- You’re capable of debugging the hairiest problems that the team encounters
- Played a key role in developing multi-year technology strategy for complete and critical areas of the business that encompass multiple systems and teams
- You have created an architecture that enables many potential futures without knowing exactly what the future is
- Ability to interact with people from across the business and build strong relationships, including the ability to effectively influence upwards
- Listened and guided debates to help reach consensus; once a decision is made clearly communicate the decision(s) back
- Set short to medium-term strategic technical direction, able to look ahead 6-12 months identify areas of greatest need and create plans to improve them
- You’re seen as a role model and mentor to every technical member of the team
- Recognised as a prolific contributor to core and side projects
- Consistently reduced the complexity of projects, services, and processes to get more done with less work
- Shaped broad architecture; shipped multiple large services, complex libraries or major pieces of infrastructure
- Made obvious positive impact on an entire company’s technical trajectory
- Happy to roll sleeves up and assist the team when required (team player)
- Self-starter and proactive approach
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and changing environment
What the job involves
- Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering for a tribe, and working with key stakeholders you will be accountable for technical vision, strategy and execution in your team and proactively manage technical risks at Fresha
- This is a heavily technical role, hands-on coding skills are expected. It’s not a management role
- Own and deliver cross team and cross tribal technical initiatives
- Take ownership of architecture for a tribe
- Sought out for technical guidance; anticipating technical issues at the product level and making architectural and design decisions to avoid them
- Create sweeping improvements in stability, performance and scalability across major business-critical systems
- Ensure timely delivery of your teams’ projects, which will ultimately have a tangible impact on Fresha’s success
- Make sure your team follows our engineering practices by leading from the front
- Work closely with diverse functions within the team across Product, Design, Data and QA and make sure that the team has clear goals and regularly delivers value to our users
- Facilitate continuous learning and improvement for your team
- Make sure that the systems your team owns meet Fresha quality, reliability and scalability standards
- You will be anticipating broad technical changes and ensuring Fresha is always ahead of the curve
- Recognising and making trade-offs with respect to the whole system. You understand deeply the entire architecture for a major part of our business and you’re able to articulate clearly the scaling and reliability limits of that area
- Primarily acting as a multiplier by building systems, authoring tools or introducing policies or patterns that raise the level of productivity of the entire org
- Communicating the awesomeness of Fresha in different Tech communities externally via talks and blog posts, identifying areas that we can share effectively with the outside world, guiding the creation of content and communication around those areas. Leading conversations internally about the direction of major areas of technology, driving wide-team consensus to the adoption of this direction and using this direction to inspire engineers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Fresha allows consumers to discover, book and pay for beauty and wellness appointments with local businesses via its centralised marketplace, while beauty and wellness businesses and professionals use its all-in-one platform to manage their entire operations.
The company has taken a different approach compared to rivals in the salon management space. Rather than charging monthly, its software is free to use, and charges when a booking is made through the system. Fresha's platform also offers a range of financial products, making it an appealing option for salon operators. This has allowed the company to swiftly build a network of merchants for its marketplace, and it has over 80,000 partner businesses processing over 30 million appointments a month.
Now that Fresha has solved the chicken-and-egg problem of starting a marketplace, it is using its market position to scale quickly. It now has 100,000 partner venues and is working within 120 countries. Between 2021 and 2023, it enjoyed 190% growth in its global bookings.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
28% female employees
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Dec 2021
$52.5m
SERIES C
Jun 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $195m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Fast track career progression
- Yoga and Pilates through WeWork membership
- Travel coverage when visiting teammates - through workshops and social events
- A vibrant and collaborative company culture
- Company social events
Company values
- Empathy
- Imagination
- Creativity
- Commitment
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
William Zeqiri
(CEO)Previously VP of Technology at Dubai Holding (investment management). Digital Services Manager for New Zealand Human Rights Convention
Nick Miller
(Product Chief)Previously a Programme Manager for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. Founded a business with William in 2005 (a strong signal of their partnership)
People progressing
Joined as a Junior Developer. Promoted to Front End Developer after 10 months.
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