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About Fresha
Fresha is the leading marketplace platform for beauty & wellness, trusted by millions of consumers and businesses worldwide. Fresha is used by over 110,000 businesses and 450,000 stylists and professionals worldwide, processing over 1 billion appointments to date . The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom , with 12 global offices located across North America, EMEA , and APAC .
Fresha allows consumers to discover, book, and pay for beauty and wellness appointments with local businesses via its marketplace, while beauty and wellness businesses and professionals use an all-in-one platform to manage their entire operations with an intuitive subscription-free business software and financial technology solutions.
Role Overview
Fresha is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer, preferably with a background or hands-on experience in software development, to join our Platform Engineering Team (Developer Experience). You will be helping to push our platform and engineering department to the next phase, ensuring engineers have the best internal tools, local developer experience, and necessary resources to work more efficiently and continue to deliver industry-leading features to our growing platform.
To foster a collaborative environment that thrives on face-to-face interactions and teamwork, all Fresha employees work from the office four days per week, with the flexibility to work remotely one day each week. London office address: WeWork, 10 York Road, London SE1 7ND
Tech Stack
- Docker in production and local development
- Taskfile automation tool of choice
- AWS EKS
- Kafka for our asynchronous message queues
- Elixir for our new backend services
- NextJS/Typescript for our new frontend services
- Ruby, NestJS for some legacy services
- RDS PostgreSQL for persistent data storage
- GitHub Action as CI tool of choice
- Jenkins & Argo Workflow for legacy pipelines
- Redis for key/value store
- Terraform for resource management
What you'll do
- Automation - Seek out processes that can be improved with automation and have internal Developer Experience as the main driver.
- Autonomy - Effectively scope and lead projects autonomously.
- Development Experience - Extend our local development experience offerings for engineers.
- Incident Management - Handle incidents with staging environments as if they were production.
- Knowledge Sharing - Enrich knowledge across the department by creating Documentation, SOPs, Runbooks, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Monitoring & Observability - Extend Monitoring & Observability capabilities, simplifying the process for engineers to access this data.
- Collaboration - Collaborate and enable engineers to do their jobs more efficiently.
- Engineering Efficiency - Develop tools to maximise engineering efficiency, such as automating the rollback of deployed applications.
- GitOps - Be an advocate of the GitOps methodology.
- Developer Experience Metrics - Assist with defining metrics to assess our internal Developer Experience.
This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.
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. We believe in fostering growth and providing the support needed for you to excel in your role.
We'd love to hear from you if you
- Software Development - Have experience in software development.
- Microservices - Have experience working with microservices and distributed systems at scale.
- Cross-Team Projects - Have experience with working on cross-team projects.
- AWS - Have AWS experience, we use EKS, RDS, S3, Cloudfront, and MSK extensively.
- SLIs/SLOs/SLAs - Have an understanding of SLIs, SLOs & SLAs.
- Networking & Linux - Knowledge of platform and ops concepts such as networking and Linux administration.
- CI Tools - Experience with CI tools: we use GitHub Action, Argo Workflows, and Jenkins.
- Monitoring Tools - Experience with monitoring tools: we use Datadog, Grafana, ELK, Sentry, and OpsGenie.
Interview Process
- Screen Stage - Video call with a member from the Talent Team (45-60m).
- 1st Stage - Video call/In-person interview with Hiring Manager (60m).
- 2nd Stage (Technical) - Video call/In-person interview with the Hiring Team (up to 2.5h).
- Final Stage - Video call meet with CTO (60 minutes).
We aim to finalise the entire interview process and deliver feedback within 4 weeks . Every job application received is reviewed manually by our talent team. While we strive to assess applications within 7 days, the sheer volume of talented individuals expressing interest may occasionally extend this timeframe.
Inclusive Workforce
At Fresha, we are creating a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable. We want all Fresha people to feel included and truly empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals. Everyone who applies will receive fair consideration for employment.
We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
If you have any accessibility requirements that would make you more comfortable during the interview process and/or once you join, please let us know so that we can support you.
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