Senior Full Stack Engineer

Fresha; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading market platform for beauty & wellness is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to join their London team. You will develop APIs for their marketplace apps and collaborate with various teams in a dynamic environment. The ideal candidate will have commercial experience in React and GraphQL, strong communication skills, and a passion for making an impact. The role requires working from the office four days a week.

Benefits

Dog friendly office

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and ability to self-organise.
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement new functionality & UIs within the web frontend.
• Design & document APIs in GraphQL & gRPC.
• Build & maintain efficient and developer-friendly APIs.
• Own the uptime & monitoring of team-owned services.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions.

Skills

Commercial experience in writing SPAs, especially using React

Experience implementing UIs with CSS, including GPU-only animations

Experience using and developing GraphQL APIs

Experience working with and configuring javascript build tooling

Strong communication skills

Tools

React

GraphQL

Webpack

Typescript

Job description

About Fresha

Fresha is the leading marketplace platform for beauty & wellness trusted by millions of consumers and businesses worldwide. Fresha is used by 130,000+ businesses and 450,000+ stylists and professionals worldwide, processing over 1 billion appointments to date.

The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with 15 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 business software and financial technology solutions.

Fresha’s ecosystem gives merchants everything they need to run their business seamlessly by facilitating appointment bookings, point-of-sale, customer records management, marketing automation, loyalty, beauty products inventory and team management.

The consumer marketplace unlocks revenue potential for partner businesses by leveraging the power of online bookings and automated marketing through mobile apps and advanced integrations with major tech brands including Instagram, Facebook and Google

Role Overview

Given our exciting and progressive growth plans, we are looking for an exceptional Full Stack Engineer to come join our global business. Working with our apps team within a tribe, you will be accountable for designing and developing APIs that support our Marketplace Native Apps and coordinating feature/API development with the rest of the tribe & other tribes.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to work in a fast-paced and changing environment, who likes to work autonomously, enjoys a challenge and wants to make an impact!

To foster a collaborative environment that thrives on face-to-face interactions and teamwork, all Fresha employees work from our dog friendly office four days per week. London office: The Bower, 207, 211 Old St, London EC1V 9NR

What you will be doing

• Frontend - Implement new functionality & UIs within our web frontend, which is written in React/NextJS
• APIs - Design & document APIs in GraphQL & gRPC, which can be used by multiple consumers (within the team & by other teams)
• Efficiency - Build & maintain efficient and developer-friendly APIs
• Monitoring - Own the uptime & monitoring of our team-owned services
• Problem-solving - Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Lifecycle - Be involved in all stages of building products from inception, through delivery, to upkeep & operation
• Culture - Contribute to a healthy engineering culture of feedback and growth
• This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.

What we are looking for

• SPAs - Commercial experience in writing SPAs, especially using React
• CSS - Experience implementing UIs with CSS, including GPU-only animations. Experience with RTL is a plus
• GraphQL - Experience using and developing GraphQL APIs
• Build Tooling - Experience working with and configuring typical javascript build tooling, such as webpack, esbuild, typescript, etc
• Documentation - Ability to write easy-to-understand high-standard documentation
• Communication - Strong communication skills, ability to self-organise and work well within teams
• Environment - 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. We believe in fostering growth and providing the support needed for you to excel in your role.

Interview Process

• Screen call - Video call with a member from the Talent Team - 30 - 60 minutes
• 1st stage - Technical Video call/In-person interview with our Engineers - Up to 60 minutes
• Tech stage - Technical Video call/In-person interview with our Engineers - up to 2 hours
• Final stage - Video call/In person meet with our CTO - up to 60 minutes
• We aim to complete 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.