The Opportunity
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 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.
You will be a key member of our multidisciplinary Marketing team, helping them to add new features and extend our platform to allow our customers to engage, attract, win and retain clients. You will join a small group of highly skilled engineers in designing and building the future of our multi-tenant SAAS platform. Given we are a small product group, you will have freedom and control to shape our product vision without bureaucracy or politics.
On the backend you will be working on a large distributed system (event-driven and restful services running on Docker and Serverless). On the frontend you will be part of the team moving our features to the newest web technologies powered by the Ember framework. 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.
What you'll do
Implement and recommend new software component designs or enhancements to existing software products.
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.
Developers own their work from start to finish. We don’t have an operations team and we deploy and monitor the areas of the system we work in as part of our day-to-day.
Work with our product owners and designers to turn high-level requirements into user stories and shippable features
Demonstrate proper coding techniques including maintainability, reuse, clean code, unit testing and driving standards within the team.
Develop automated unit tests and acceptance tests to ensure software meets design criteria.
Never stops learning, pursues the latest technologies, and seeks the best solutions. Always looking to learn and improve.
Coach and support teammates through code reviews and whiteboarding sessions
Be that person who gets involved at a team level in designing and implementing solutions.
Someone that challenges the norm and isn’t afraid to voice their opinion.
Want to learn more about Phorest and our interview process?
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Phorest is an equal opportunities employer and we value diversity at our company. Phorest does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.
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 we're looking for
Proficient with object-oriented software design - (for example Java, Groovy, Ruby).
Proficient with Javascript and a good knowledge of at least one of the top frameworks like Ember, React, Vue etc. We use Ember.
Understanding of the complexities of the DOM and CSS.
Familiarity with design patterns.
Ability to work within teams using Source Control Management tools, like git. Working with pull requests, hotfixes and various branching strategies.
Ability to inspire and motivate, to improve quality and productivity, maintaining technical innovation and excellence.
Discipline and appreciation of working with TDD/CI processes.
Experience designing distributed services that can communicate in a fault-tolerant manner using both RESTful and message-driven APIs.
Experience with or willingness to learn Docker and AWS.
Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases and performance tuning
Experience working in a scrum environment.
Benefits
🧘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 things casual.
