Senior Software Engineer, GlossGenius
Infrastructure
Business management platform for beauty salons
Open for applications
Business management platform for beauty salons
201-500 employees
Open for applications
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
- 4+ years of experience working with cloud technologies as a Software Engineer (SWE), Systems Engineer, Production Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or similar roles
- Demonstrated experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) in production to serve real-world traffic
- Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform, Terraform CDK, or AWS CDK
- Solid understanding of IP networking, DNS, CDN, load balancing, HTTP, and firewalls
- Experience building and maintaining monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for large-scale, 24/7 platforms
- Participating in team on-call responsibilities
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes (i.e. AWS EKS, GCP GKE)
- The ability to write high-quality code in a high-level programming language such as Go, Typescript, Python, Kotlin, Java, or Ruby
- Demonstrated ability to drive projects from concept to completion, with a strong focus on delivering outcomes
What the job involves
- In this role on our Infrastructure team, you’ll focus on empowering developers with the right tools and ensuring the reliability and scalability of our production systems
- Your work will drive both our internal developer experience and the robustness of the infrastructure that supports our rapidly growing platform
- As part of a rapidly growing team, you will be instrumental in building and maintaining reliable, secure, and highly scalable infrastructure that powers the businesses of over 75,000 Service Professionals
- You will drive operational excellence, scale our cloud-native deployment and collaborate closely with product engineering teams to enable growth across the business
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to support a reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure platform that minimizes toil
- Ensure GlossGenius scales its AWS cloud footprint efficiently
- Build tools to help engineers quickly identify problems across the stack
- Shape incident management practices and drive operational excellence
- Enhance our monitoring and alerting capabilities and share your expertise with other teams as an subject matter expert in observability
- Champion DevOps principles across the company, fostering a culture of collaboration and automation
- Understand industry and company-wide trends to help assess and integrate new technologies
- Collaborate with the broader engineering team to optimize application performance and encourage resilient, scalable system architecture
- Take ownership of complex problems from inception to resolution, engaging with stakeholders and driving solutions that balance business needs with platform reliability, scalability, and security
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
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
Articles
Leadership
Experience as Research Intern for DenizBank. Investments Analyst for Goldman Sachs from 2011 to 2014.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at GlossGenius
- At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer
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