Staff Backend Engineer

Who you are

• AI-Augmented Workflow: You have deep experience building and interacting with AI agents, using them to amplify your output to 5x that of manual coding. You can integrate agents into our workflow while strictly adhering to our architecture and security standards, and take full accountability for ensuring that all generated code meets the quality expectations of a Senior Engineer
• Delivery - You have consistently delivered large systems involving one or more teams’ contributions on time at a high level of quality
• Problem-solving - You’ve had to quickly break down complex problems into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, in order to get a solid resolution faster
• Debugging - You’re capable of debugging the hairiest problems that the team encounters
• Strategy - Played a key role in developing multi-year technology strategy for complete and critical areas of the business that encompass multiple systems and teams
• Adaptability - You have created an architecture that enables many potential futures without knowing exactly what the future is
• Relationships - Ability to interact with people from across the business and build strong relationships, including the ability to effectively influence upwards
• Facilitation - Listened and guided debates to help reach consensus; once a decision is made, clearly communicate the decision(s) back
• Planning - Set short-to-medium-term strategic technical direction, able to look ahead 6-12 months, identify areas of greatest need and create plans to improve them
• Mentorship - You’re seen as a role model and mentor to every technical member of the team
• Contribution - Recognised as a prolific contributor to core and side projects
• Simplification - Consistently reduced the complexity of projects, services, and processes to get more done with less work
• Architecture - Shaped broad architecture; shipped multiple large services, complex libraries or major pieces of infrastructure
• Impact - Made obvious positive impact on an entire company’s technical trajectory
• Team-player - Happy to roll sleeves up and assist the team when required (team player)
• Proactive - Self-starter and proactive approach
• Adaptive - Comfortable working in a fast-paced and changing environment
• At Fresha, we value passion and potential as much as specific skills. If you're enthusiastic and eager to learn, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't meet every listed requirement

What the job involves

• Technical - this is a heavily technical role; hands-on coding skills are expected. It’s not a management role
• Leadership - Own and deliver cross-team and cross tribal technical initiatives
• Architectural - Take ownership of architecture for a tribe
• Guidance - Sought out for technical guidance; anticipating technical issues at the product level and making architectural and design decisions to avoid them
• Improvements - Create sweeping improvements in stability, performance and scalability across major business-critical systems
• Delivery - Ensure timely delivery of your team’s projects, which will ultimately have a tangible impact on Fresha’s success
• Lead-by-example - Make sure your team follows our engineering practices by leading from the front
• Collaboration - Work closely with diverse functions within the team across Product, Design, Data and QA and make sure that the team has clear goals and regularly delivers value to our users
• Learning - Facilitate continuous learning and improvement for your team
• Standards - Make sure that the systems your team owns meet Fresha quality, reliability and scalability standards
• Innovative - You will be anticipating broad technical changes and ensuring Fresha is always ahead of the curve
• Strategic - Recognising and making trade-offs concerning the whole system. You have a deep understanding of the entire architecture for a significant part of our business, and you’re able to articulate clearly the scaling and reliability limits of that area
• Multiplier - Primarily acting as a multiplier by building systems, authoring tools or introducing policies or patterns that raise the level of productivity of the entire organisation
• Communication - Communicating the awesomeness of Fresha in different Tech communities externally via talks and blog posts, identifying areas that we can share effectively with the outside world, guiding the creation of content and communication around those areas
• Leading conversations internally about the direction of significant areas of technology, driving wide-team consensus on the adoption of this direction and using this direction to inspire engineers

Benefits

• Work from home opportunities
• Fast track career progression
• Travel coverage when visiting teammates - through workshops and social events
• A vibrant and collaborative company culture
• Company social events