Senior Software Engineer, Phorest
Salon Management
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Salon management solution
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Salon management solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
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
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a similar related field
- Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to learn and grow
- Strong proficiency and at least 5 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design, primarily Java
- 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, specifically for implementing GraphQL APIs and schema design
- 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 and NoSQL 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 theirs
What the job involves
- We are looking for a new Senior Software Engineer to join our Salon Management Team
- You will join a multidisciplinary group of technology, product, and design folks in building the future of the hair, beauty, and MedSpa industry
- This team owns Phorest’s core back‑office platform including client and staff records, services and pricing, schedules, commissions and memberships
- This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants a new challenge, where you’ll bring your experience to a supportive, growth-mindset environment that will enable us to achieve our goals
- You will be shaping the future of a high-scale, distributed system, leveraging event-driven architecture and modern cloud technologies like Docker and Serverless
- Your contributions will impact millions of users globally
- You will be solving complex problems in an environment where we look to continuously improve and learn
- We work with feature flags and continuous delivery to ensure our work gets to production as fast as possible
- Someone who will recommend and implement new software component designs or enhancements to existing software products
- Someone who will 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 stops learning, pursues and understands the latest technology trends, with a pragmatic approach to solution design. Someone who knows not only when to use a new tool or technology, but also when not to
- Coach and support teammates through code reviews and whiteboarding sessions
- Be that person who takes the initiative on designing and implementing solutions that provide positive outcomes for the team and business
- Someone that challenges 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-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
$23.4m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $37m
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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