Senior Software Engineer, Consultations

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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 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 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 We are looking for a new Senior Software Engineer to join our Consultation Team. You will join a multidisciplinary group of technology, product, and design folks in building the future of the hair, beauty, and MedSpa industry. This team looks after the client and patient journey from enquiry, consultation, documentation, and care management. 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.

• 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
• Maintain high coding standards, 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
• Continually learn latest technology trends with a pragmatic approach to solution design
• Coach and support teammates through code reviews and whiteboarding sessions
• Take initiative on designing and implementing solutions that provide positive outcomes for the team and business

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to learn and grow
• At least 5 years of professional experience with object-oriented design, primarily Java
• Experience designing distributed services with fault-tolerant RESTful and message-driven APIs
• Proficiency with or willingness to learn TypeScript/JavaScript, especially for GraphQL APIs and schema design
• Experience with GraphQL is beneficial but not mandatory
• Experience with modern software engineering practices such as continuous delivery, TDD, MVC, ORM
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and performance tuning
• Experience working in a scrum environment
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills
• Willingness to challenge norms and voice opinions

Your wellbeing is important to us – private healthcare, 2 Wellness Days, an employee assistance program and a free online GP service.

Financial wellbeing includes competitive compensation, an Employee Share Purchase Scheme, Pension, Life Assurance, and Income Protection.

Bike-to-work scheme, tax saver transport tickets, generous family benefits including 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause, Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits.

Learning and development opportunities, access to online resources including LinkedIn Learning, and 3 moving days for relocation.

Phorest is an equal opportunity employer. Flexi-time and remote work are possible; contact us to chat about your future with Phorest.

We value diverse applicants. If you think you have what it takes but don't meet every point, we'd still love to hear from you.