About Phorest
Would you like to create the future of a product used by thousands of businesses and millions of consumers? Phorest Salon Software powers over 11,000 hair and beauty salons in Ireland, UK, Germany, Australia, Finland, USA, Canada, UAE and Netherlands and the platform processes 7 million appointments a month for hair and beauty consumers. Phorest is the number 1 salon software brand for premium independent salons in those markets and our next goal is to become a platform upon which other companies can build applications for premium salons.
Our system touches every point of the salon experience. We have the in-salon software desktop application, Phorest Go (the native staff application), online bookings website for salons, and custom native apps per salon. In a typical month, Phorest processes 3 million appointments and we send over 3 million SMS and 4 million emails. We process 200k online bookings per month and over 150 custom built white label native apps.
The Opportunity
You will join a small team of highly skilled engineers focused on improving our internal systems in order to give all staff a central view of the customer, improving our billing and feature engine and ensuring data integrity across the systems and platform. Our internal teams will be this teams’ customers. This is a recently formed team building new services from the ground up and this is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys new challenges and setting the standards for the team, and even the wider development group. Join a team where achieving success often requires a monster flex of creativity and technical expertise.
Given we are a small product group, you will have freedom and control to shape our product vision without bureaucracy or politics.
You will be working on a large distributed system (event-driven and restful services running on Docker and Serverless) 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 and safely as possible.
What you will do
Work with other engineers, product owners and designers to turn internal teams’ requests and problems into features which solve those problems.
Get to own the entire lifecycle of a feature. This includes activities such as producing technical design docs, writing and shipping code, planning the rollout to internal customers and being responsible for that feature in production.
Spend the majority of your time on technical work, delivering clean, testable code, and will be continually looking to learn from both company and industry engineering best practices.
Have the opportunity to work with a variety of systems and applications that touch a wide range of engineering areas, including data processing, automating internal workflows, integrating with external systems, etc.
Provide support to other engineers on your team, via activities such as pair programming, code reviews, and generally doing what you can to remove any blockers.
Work with a team of experienced engineers who will provide mentorship to you in order to help you grow and learn.
Have the opportunity to shape how we solve technical problems, contributing to key architectural decisions within our product.
Who you are
Strong proficiency and at least 4 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design, ideally Java &/or Kotlin.
Experience designing distributed services which can communicate in a fault-tolerant manner using both RESTful and message-driven APIs.
Someone who wants to own their work from start to finish. Engineers are expected to deploy and monitor the areas of the system they work in.
Discipline and appreciation of working with TDD and CI/CD processes.
Familiarity with common software design patterns.
Experience with, or willingness to learn how to operate our AWS based infrastructure and services.
Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.
Experience working in an agile, product led environment.
Ability to inspire and motivate, to improve quality and productivity, maintaining technical innovation and excellence.
Someone that challenges the norm and isn’t afraid to voice their opinion.
Benefits
Your wellbeing is important to us - we provide private healthcare, 2 Wellness Days, an employee assistance program and a free online GP service.
As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide competitive Compensation, 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 support the women who work in Phorest by offering 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause.
We care for your family and provide Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits.
We grow our own timber! We provide a great learning environment and extensive development opportunities. We run development programs and provide access to many online resources including LinkedIn learning.
Moving house? Phorest employees get 3 moving days.
Want to learn more about Phorest? Check out nothingventured.rocks for our blog and Insights on building an evergreen company from the team here at Phorest.
Phorest is an equal opportunity employer. For this position, flexi-time and working from home is possible. We are also open to remote work. Get in touch to ask for more information or to chat about your future with Phorest!
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.
