Backend Software Engineer

• Build reliable, scalable Java services that help salons and spas thrive worldwide. Join a supportive team shaping a distributed platform and take your ideas from design to delivery
• We’re looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Engineering team at Phorest
• You’ll work alongside talented engineers, product managers and designers to build and improve the technology that powers thousands of salons, spas and MedSpas around the world
• This is an opportunity to work on a large-scale, distributed platform, solving interesting technical challenges and building software that makes a real difference to the businesses that use Phorest every day
• Our technology stack includes Java, event-driven architecture and modern cloud technologies such as Docker and Serverless. We value clean code, pragmatic decision-making and continuous improvement, with feature flags and continuous delivery helping us get great work into production quickly
• You’ll join a collaborative, supportive team where you’ll have the opportunity to influence technical decisions, share your knowledge and continue developing your skills
• Design, develop and maintain scalable, reliable backend services and systems
• Work closely with engineers, product managers and designers to turn business requirements into well-designed, shippable features
• Contribute to technical design discussions, making informed decisions about architecture, performance and scalability
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code, following engineering best practices
• Build and improve RESTful APIs and integrations that support our platform
• Take ownership of features from initial design through to deployment and ongoing improvement
• Participate in code reviews, share knowledge and support the development of other engineers
• Identify opportunities to improve our systems, development processes and overall engineering standards
• Stay curious about emerging technologies and bring a practical approach to introducing new tools and solutions where they add value

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

• You have a growth mindset, enjoy learning and know when to adopt new technologies and when to keep things simple
• You’re a collaborative team player who enjoys working across disciplines and supporting others
• You’re confident contributing to technical discussions and sharing your ideas and opinions
• You have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Java and object-oriented software design
• You have a good understanding of JavaScript and modern web technologies
• You have experience designing, building and maintaining backend services in a production environment
• You understand the principles of scalable, distributed systems and can reason about technical trade-offs
• You’re proactive, take ownership of your work and look for ways to improve how things are done
• You care about code quality, testing, maintainability and building software that lasts
• You’re comfortable working with RESTful APIs, with GraphQL experience being a bonus
• 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

• We usually respond within a month