Senior Software Engineer, Phorest
Salon Operations
Salon management solution
Open for applications
Salon management solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
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
- Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer
- Strong proficiency and at least 5 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design - (for example Java, Kotlin)
- Experience designing distributed services which can communicate in a fault-tolerant manner using both RESTful and message-driven APIs
- Proficiency with or willingness to learn Typescript/Javascript
- Experience with GraphQL would be beneficial but not mandatory
- Experience and deep understanding of modern software engineering practices such as continuous delivery, TDD, MVC, ORM
- Experience working with relational databases and performance tuning
- Experience working in a scrum environment
- Ability to inspire and motivate, to improve quality and productivity, maintaining technical innovation and excellence
- Great communication: Cross-team collaboration is key in our organisation, we are looking for people who are excellent at understanding others’ ideas and explaining their own
- Strong focus on observability, leveraging tools like Honeycomb to monitor, debug, and improve the performance and reliability of our services
What the job involves
- You will be a key member of our multidisciplinary Salon Ops group, helping us enhance and expand our platform to provide salon owners with powerful tools for managing their business
- You will partner with highly skilled engineers in designing and building the future of our multi-tenant SaaS platform
- Given we are a smaller product group, you will have a direct influence and impact on shaping our product vision.
- You will be working on a large distributed system (event-driven and restful services running on Docker and Serverless)
- You will solve complex problems in an environment that values continuous growth and learning
- We work with feature flags and continuous delivery to ensure our work gets to production as fast as possible
- Recommend and implement new software component designs or enhancements to existing software products
- Work with our product designers and owners to turn high-level requirements into user stories and shippable features
- 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
- Demonstrate proper coding techniques including maintainability, reuse, clean code, unit testing and driving standards within the team
- Never stop learning, pursuing and understanding the latest technology trends, with a pragmatic approach to solution design. You’re someone who not only knows when to use a new tool or technology, but also when not to
- Coach and support teammates through code reviews and program pairing sessions
- Be that person who takes the initiative on designing and implementing solutions that provide positive outcomes for the team and business
- Challenge the norm and isn’t afraid to voice their opinion
Our take
Annually, significant financial losses plague salons and health spas due to both no-sho 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%, contributing significantly to the company's service of 155,000 health and beauty professionals worldwide. From its inception, Phorest has consistently evolved and broadened its platform, now encompassing features for staffing management, inventory control, and strategic marketing endeavors.
Bolstered by funding, the company is poised for further global outreach., This financial boost will enable Phorest to confidently vie with international contenders like Zenoti and Booker on the global stage.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$12m
LATE VC
Jun 2018
$20.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $34.2m
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 values
- Growth Mindset: We are all about growth - when it comes to ourselves, our company & our clients
- Seirbhís Go Hiontach: Irish for 'excellence in service' or 'service without measure'
- Can-Do Attitude: We are dynamic and have a bias for action
Company HQ
North City, Dublin, Ireland
Articles
Leadership
Ronan Perceval
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked in hair salons, and also co-founded Demonware.
Jamie Myerscough
(Co-Founder)Previously served as Phorest's CEO & Sales Director. Is currently CEO of Educogym.
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