Phorest powers over 8,000 hair and beauty salons using our software in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Finland, the USA and Canada. Our aim is to capture 25% of the market globally – that’s one million salons and a billion-dollar company.    

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 millions of appointments, SMS, emails, and processes 100s of thousands of online bookings.

We are looking for an EM to be the spearhead of our foundations group, a pillar of our product development team whose mission is to enable Phorest to quickly evolve, scale and be trusted by salon owners so that we can run and grow their businesses - it is critical for our companies success.

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 join other technical leaders to design and build the future in engineering / engineering management excellence in our company.

• 5+ years demonstrated impact in a similar leadership role, at scale
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a similar related field
• The ability to collaboratively lead the evolution of your team’s strategy, setting unambiguous roadmaps and goals for the team and then delivering on them in a healthy, predictable and sustainable way.
• Experience managing people who manage others and see their role as one of empowerment and creating an environment to encourage visionaries (rather than necessarily always be a visionary themselves). 
• You should be comfortable coaching team members. You will communicate expectations clearly and deliver individual feedback frequently. 
• You have a proven history of building close working relationships with your product counterparts and external stakeholders, with the ability to inspire and motivate, improve quality and productivity, while maintaining technical innovation and excellence
• Strategic thinker, with an ability to to express and convey thoughts in meaningful ways in a fast paced and evolving environment, with a high degree of autonomy
• Previous hands on development experience in large JVM based distributed systems in AWS preferred is preferred
• Experience working with and managing Agile teams, as well as driving improvement across the whole development process
• Experience developing and supporting engineers, and engineering leaders in their personal growth and career progression. You foster an environment where communication, teamwork, and collaboration are rewarded.
• Discipline and appreciation of working with TDD/ CI processes.
• You focus on quality, while increasing efficiency, delivering value and reducing waste.

• Your wellbeing is important to us - we provide private healthcare, an employee assistance program and a free online GP service (WebDoc). 
• 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 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 business casual. 
• We understand work/life balance is so important. We offer flexibility around working in the office or remotely. If you do want to join us in our office, we have an excellent city centre location which you can easily get to from all parts of the city.