Senior Software Engineer (Platform) - Remote (to GMT +2) / Dublin

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 almost 10,000 hair and beauty salons in the UK, Ireland, 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 high impact team that plays a critical role in helping Phorest to quickly evolve, scale and ship great products for salon owners to run and grow their businesses. We leverage outcome-based foundational work, working on the most important things for Phorest long-term.

This team will enable us to identify, prioritise and mitigate risks that would threaten our future security, availability or agility.

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'll Do

• You will work with our principal and staff engineers on high impact engineering initiatives that will improve the scalability, resiliency and observability of our platform.
• You will help to build the tools and infrastructure as code pipelines that are used by our product teams, and promote cloud best practices in the wider development team.
• You will 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.
• You will actively support team members through pair programming, code reviews, and issue resolution.
  
  

Who You Are

An experienced and enthusiastic software engineer who’s comfortable with the technologies we use, and working on a close-knit, collaborative team. We work to meet the needs of our 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:

Technical skills:

• Strong proficiency and at least 4 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design - (for example Java, Kotlin)
• Proficiency in at least one infrastructure as code tool
• Discipline and appreciation of working with CICD processes and a DevOps mindset.
• Familiarity with common software design patterns and an ability to write clean and testable code.
• Experience with data engineering tools and platforms (e.g., Kafka, Apache Flink) for building, maintaining, and optimizing data pipelines.
• Familiarity with containerized and serverless applications.
• Experience working on the architecture and design of new and existing systems with AWS
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases and performance tuning.
  
  

Other qualities and soft skills:

• Experience working in an agile, product led environment.
• Someone who wants to own their work from start to finish. We don’t have an operations team and engineers are expected to deploy and monitor the areas of the system they work in.
• 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.
  
  

Bonus points:

• Experience with AWS ECS and RDS Aurora
• Experience with big data technologies like Redshift and AWS Glue
• Experience working in a high impact environment
  
  

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.