Software Engineer – Communications

🕒 April 21

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Phorest Software

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2003

☁️ SaaS

💄 Beauty

🤝 B2B

💰 $12M Debt Financing - Phorest on 2022-03

SaaS • Beauty • B2B

Phorest Software is a software company that builds and delivers a cloud-based platform to support salons and businesses in the beauty industry. Founded in 2002, Phorest provides salon management tools including bookings, payments (PhorestPay), client management, marketing and analytics, serving thousands of salon customers globally while emphasizing community, sustainability and employee culture. The company operates as a B2B SaaS provider with a distributed, growth-focused workforce of 400+ employees.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ 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 programs and provide access to many online resources including LinkedIn learning. • Moving house? Phorest employees get 3 moving days.