Software Engineer - Marketing

Phorest

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

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 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. We are looking for a new Mid-level Software BackEnd Engineer to join our Marketing team. You will join a multidisciplinary group of technology, product, and design folks in building the future of the hair, beauty, and MedSpa industry. You will be a key member of our team, helping them to design and build the future of our multi-tenant SAAS platform to allow our customers to engage, attract, win and retain clients. 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.

Requirements

Strong proficiency and at least 3 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design, primarily Java
Knowledge and understanding of JavaScript, its fundamentals, and latest developments in JavaScript
Experience in working with and building RESTful APIs (GraphQL a bonus)
The ability to reason about trade-offs when discussing backend technologies
Ability to inspire and motivate, to improve quality and productivity, maintaining technical innovation and excellence
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.

Nice To Haves

GraphQL a bonus

Responsibilities

Push the boundaries of modern backend development to build fast, ambitious web applications that will delight our clients.
Collaborate closely with our product team to build features that have a significant business impact.
Proactively identify bottlenecks and improve our frontend developer experience.
Work with our design team to build elegant and intuitive UI components.
Understand our business context deeply and leverage engineering knowledge to come up with creative solutions to problems.
Thrive in a small, nimble team comprising technical experts.
Prioritise quality and high standards by continually applying high coding standards, excellent attention to detail, and a methodological work process.
Demonstrate and drive proper coding techniques, including maintainability, reuse, clean code, and unit testing within the team.
Develop automated unit and acceptance tests to ensure software meets design criteria.
Never stop learning; pursue the latest technologies, seek the best solutions, and always look to improve.
Coach and help teammates through code reviews and whiteboarding sessions.
Get involved at a team level in designing and implementing solutions.
Challenge the norm and aren't afraid to voice their opinion.