Software Engineer, Phorest
Infrastructure, Foundations
Salon management solution
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Salon management solution
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
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
- A platform/infrastructure engineer who's comfortable with the technologies we use and working on a close-knit, collaborative team
- We work to meet the needs of users throughout the business, so a multi-functional, collaborative, and service-minded attitude is key
- We value good communication, empathy, and initiative in all of our engineers and employees. Some qualities specific to this role include:
- At least 3 years of professional experience with AWS cloud infrastructure across multiple services (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, etc.)
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code - Terraform preferred
- Experience with CI/CD tools and practices for infrastructure deployment
- Hands-on experience with cloud security practices including IAM, encryption, network security, and compliance
- Comfortable with scripting and automation (Python, Bash, or similar)
- Understanding of cost optimization strategies and cloud financial management
- Someone that challenges the norm and isn’t afraid to voice their opinion
- Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalised folks tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit
What the job involves
- You will join a high-impact team that plays a critical role in helping Phorest quickly evolve, scale, and ship great products for salon owners to run and grow their businesses. We leverage outcome-based foundational work, focusing on the most important things for Phorest's long-term success
- This team enables us to identify, prioritize, and mitigate risks that would threaten our future security, availability, or agility
- You'll be working on cloud infrastructure and platform reliability for a large distributed system (event-driven and RESTful services running on Docker and Serverless), solving complex problems in an environment where we continuously improve and learn
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions using AWS and Terraform, focusing on reliability, security, and cost optimization
- Drive infrastructure improvements including implementing security enhancements (WAF, encryption, MFA), optimizing AWS resource utilization, and improving monitoring and observability
- Build and maintain infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling to support continuous delivery
- Work alongside senior developers and other technical leaders to drive platform improvements, including implementing security enhancements, optimizing cloud infrastructure, building audit systems, and improving internal data pipelines
- Implement cost management strategies including Reserved Instance optimisation, budget alerting systems, and cost allocation through tagging
- Collaborate with development teams to enable self-service infrastructure capabilities while maintaining security and compliance
- Demonstrate infrastructure-as-code best practices including modularity, reusability, testing, and documentation
- Take initiative on designing and implementing solutions that provide positive outcomes for the team and business
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
$23.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $37.2m
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 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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