Software Engineer – Backend

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Phorest Software

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2003

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏥 Healthcare

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

Consulting • Marketing • Healthcare

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

• Design, develop and maintain scalable, reliable backend services and systems • Work with engineers, product managers and designers to turn business requirements into shippable features • Contribute to technical design discussions involving architecture, performance and scalability • Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code • Build and improve RESTful APIs and integrations • Own features from initial design through deployment and ongoing improvement • Participate in code reviews, share knowledge and support other engineers • Improve systems, development processes and engineering standards • Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies where they add value

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience • Strong proficiency in Java • Object-oriented software design • Experience designing, building and maintaining backend services in a production environment • Experience with RESTful APIs • Good understanding of JavaScript and modern web technologies • Understanding of scalable, distributed systems and technical trade-offs • Knowledge of code quality, testing and maintainability • GraphQL experience is a bonus • Collaborative, proactive and growth-oriented approach

🏖️ Benefits

• Private healthcare • 2 Wellness Days • Employee assistance program • Free online GP service • Competitive compensation • Employee Share Purchase Scheme • Pension • Life Assurance • Income Protection • Bike to work scheme • Tax saver transport tickets • 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits • Great learning environment • Extensive development opportunities • Development programs • Access to online resources including LinkedIn Learning • 3 moving days • Flexi-time • Working from home • Remote work