Senior Backend Engineer, Fresha
£80-115k
3+ days a week in office
Booking software for beauty & wellness brands
Job no longer available
Booking software for beauty & wellness brands
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
£80-115k
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower beauty and wellness businesses and help millions look and feel their best.
Role
Who you are
- You understand how to build, deploy and maintain a globally distributed system
- Knowledge of event-driven systems and tools/protocols like Kafka, and gRPC will be a plus
- Have experience (~3+ years) working on internal product engineering teams, developer tools, developer productivity or infrastructure products at scale
- Are a generalist engineer with an ability to pick up new frameworks quickly and willing to work across the stack
- Enjoy understanding technical domains deeply and are willing to really get into the weeds
- You’re tech stack agnostic and care more about using the right tech for the job. Ideally, you have worked with 3+ different flavors, functional, OO and scripting languages
What the job involves
- Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, and working collaboratively in a cross-functional product team within a tribe, you will be accountable for designing and developing applications and coordinating with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure Fresha
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby/ Elixir code
- All our services are built-in Ruby, Elixir, GraphQL federation or Typescript, depending on which language best suits the solution
- For communication, we use Kafka for events and gRPC or JSON for synchronous calls
- All our services run in Kubernetes
- We are in the process of switching away from our Ruby monolith to a brand-new microservice architecture
- Domain-driven design is at the heart of our development process, we like to build fast but think about the bounded context before we start
- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
- Be involved in all stages of building products from inception, through delivery and beyond
- Help to shape the future of our architecture and best practices
- Contribute to a healthy engineering culture of feedback and growth
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 through a range of intuitive software and fintech solutions.
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 only when a booking is made through the system. Fresha's platform also offers a range of financial products such as point-of-sale, customer records management and marketing automation, making it an appealing option for salon operators. This has allowed the company to swiftly build a network of merchants for its marketplace and collate over 110,000 partner businesses processing over 1 billion appointments booked to date. The marketplace also creates revenue potential for partner companies through its online bookings, building integrations with social media brands like Instagram and Facebook.
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 130,000 partner venues and is working in 120 countries. Between 2021 and 2023, it enjoyed 190% growth in its global bookings.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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
- Travel coverage when visiting teammates - through workshops and social events
- A vibrant and collaborative company culture
- Company social events
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
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)
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