Software Engineer

About Phorest
Phorest Salon Software is a rapidly growing tech company on a mission to help beauty businesses thrive.
Our software empowers premium salons, spas, and aesthetic clinics around the globe with a suite of tools designed to enhance client experiences, streamline operations, and drive business growth.
With a presence in the heart of the beauty industry, we are committed to fostering innovation, excellence, and community.
And one of the important parts of that offering is our bespoke payments solution called PhorestPay.
PhorestPay aims to empower Phorest to become an established global payments business that serves US and ROW customers with both online and offline operating propositions.
Over €4B was processed through Phorest's salons tills last year, and each month 100's of online bookings are created.
The Opportunity
Phorest is expanding its Payments solutions, delivering both online and in-store payment experiences to thousands of businesses daily.
Our goal is to ensure Phorest can facilitate any type of financial transaction that occurs between our salons and their end customers.
This is a technically complex and challenging domain, and one which has a huge potential impact for the future of the company.
You will be a key member of a multidisciplinary team specifically focusing on the microservice called Payments Service.
In this role, you'll be developing innovative solutions that integrate directly with Stripe, powering both online and in-store payment processing as well as post-processing flows enabling embedded payments.
Your work will directly contribute to our preparations for embedded finance, making this an exciting and forward-looking opportunity.
You\'ll join a small, highly skilled group of engineers within a fast-moving product team, where you'll have the freedom to influence our product direction and help shape the future of our multi-tenant SAAS platform.
What You\'ll Do
Recommend and implement new software component designs or enhancements to existing software products
Work with our product designers and owners to turn high-level requirements into user stories and shippable features
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.
Demonstrate proper coding techniques including maintainability, reuse, clean code, unit testing and driving standards within the team
Never stop learning, pursuing and understanding the latest technology trends, with a pragmatic approach to solution design.
You\'re someone who not only knows when to use a new tool or technology, but also when not to.
Be that person who takes the initiative on designing and implementing solutions that provide positive outcomes for the team and business.
You will gain exposure to the payments industry, including integrating with the leading payment processing platforms in the tech space.
Who You Are
Strong proficiency and at least 3 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design - (for example Java, Kotlin, Scala)
Discipline and appreciation of working with TDD / CI processes.
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.
We don't have an operations team and engineers are expected to deploy and monitor the areas of the system they work in.
Familiarity with common software design patterns.
Experience within the domain of payments would be beneficial but not mandatory.
Experience with, or willingness to learn how to operate our AWS based infrastructure and services.
Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases and performance tuning.
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 programsand provide access tomany online resources including LinkedIn learning.
Moving house?
Phorest employees get 3 moving days.
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
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