Senior Software Engineer, Phorest
Payments
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Salon management solution
Open for applications
Salon management solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ ESPP
More information about location
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
- You have 5+ years of professional experience building backend systems in object-oriented languages such as Java, Kotlin, or Scala, ideally in high-throughput or transactional domains
- You’ve worked in payments or similarly complex, high-volume industries, and you're comfortable operating in production environments where reliability and performance are critical
- You're experienced in designing and building distributed systems that communicate via RESTful and event-driven (e.g. Kafka) architectures, with an emphasis on fault tolerance and observability
- You take full ownership of your work, from design and implementation to deployment and production support, and you're comfortable shipping and monitoring your own code in production
- You have strong software craftsmanship: you care deeply about writing clean, maintainable code, follow best releasing practices, and advocate for sustainable engineering
- You have solid experience working with relational databases, and know how to optimise queries
- You’re familiar with AWS-based infrastructure
- You thrive in a product-led, agile environment, and you bring a collaborative mindset when working with cross-functional teams
- You want to be a technical leader who mentors others, raises the bar on quality and best practices, and brings people along with your ideas
- You're someone who challenges assumptions, speaks up with thoughtful opinions, and genuinely cares about building great systems that scale
What the job involves
- Phorest is expanding its Payments solutions, delivering both online and in-store payment experiences to thousands of businesses and staff daily
- Our goal is to ensure Phorest can facilitate any type of financial transaction that occurs between our salons and their end customers
- This is a technically complex and challenging domain, and one which has a huge potential impact for the future of the company
- As the Senior engineer you'll play a hands-on role in shaping the future of our Payments team
- You’ll lead engineering efforts to make our payment systems more resilient, scalable, and ready for Embedded Finance, while improving reliability across core payment flows like in-store and online transactions
- This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building and problem-solving, takes initiative, and wants to drive meaningful improvements in a complex, high-impact domain
- You’ll have the freedom to shape technical direction, influence the technical roadmap, and make key decisions on architecture and implementation approaches
- Once the core technical challenges are under control, you’ll transition into a more product-focused team
- We're looking for someone who brings a strong commitment to engineering best practices, enjoys mentoring others, and wants to help elevate technical standards across the team
- Take ownership of redesigning and improvement for core components within the Payments solution in Phorest, leading the design and implementation of resilient, scalable, and maintainable systems that support future product growth
- Tackle complex architectural and infrastructure challenges, helping to stabilise critical payment flows and prepare our systems for long-term reliability
- Make informed, pragmatic technical decisions with the autonomy to influence architectural direction and the technical roadmap for the team
- Champion and apply engineering best practices (clean code, testing, maintainability, observability) and support your team in doing the same through mentorship and collaboration
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to translate technical groundwork into product feature delivery, transitioning to a product-focused team once core technical challenges are addressed
- Keep a high bar for quality and craftsmanship in your day-to-day work, with strong attention to detail and pride in delivering robust solutions
- Stay curious and up-to-date with relevant technologies and the payments industry
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
$23.3m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $36.9m
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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