Software Engineer

Who you are

• Strong proficiency and at least 3 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design, primarily Java
• Knowledge and understanding of JavaScript, its fundamentals, and latest developments in JavaScript
• Experience in working with and building RESTful APIs (GraphQL a bonus)
• The ability to reason about trade-offs when discussing backend technologies
• Ability to inspire and motivate, to improve quality and productivity, maintaining technical innovation and excellence
• 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
• 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 the job involves

• Join Phorest as a Mid-level Backend Engineer (Marketing) to build scalable, event-driven services powering millions of salon interactions
• We are looking for a new Mid-level Software BackEnd Engineer to join our Marketing team
• You will join a multidisciplinary group of technology, product, and design folks in building the future of the hair, beauty, and MedSpa industry
• You will be a key member of our team, helping them to design and build the future of our multi-tenant SAAS platform to allow our customers to engage, attract, win and retain clients
• 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
• Push the boundaries of modern backend development to build fast, ambitious web applications that will delight our clients
• Collaborate closely with our product team to build features that have a significant business impact
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and improve our frontend developer experience
• Work with our design team to build elegant and intuitive UI components
• Understand our business context deeply and leverage engineering knowledge to come up with creative solutions to problems
• Thrive in a small, nimble team comprising technical experts
• Prioritise quality and high standards by continually applying high coding standards, excellent attention to detail, and a methodological work process
• Demonstrate and drive proper coding techniques, including maintainability, reuse, clean code, and unit testing within the team
• Develop automated unit and acceptance tests to ensure software meets design criteria
• Never stop learning; pursue the latest technologies, seek the best solutions, and always look to improve
• Coach and help teammates through code reviews and whiteboarding sessions
• Get involved at a team level in designing and implementing solutions
• Challenge the norm and aren't afraid to voice their opinion

Benefits

• Your wellbeing is important to us - We provide private healthcare, and employee assistance program and a free online GP service (WebDoc)
• As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide 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 causal things