Senior Backend Engineer — Java, Scalable APIs

Phorest; Ireland; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Employee Share Purchase Scheme

Pension

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Bike to work scheme

Tax saver transport tickets

Enhanced maternity and paternity

Onboarding program

Learning & Development / coaching

Casual dress code

Job summary

Phorest is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer in Ireland to design, build and scale backend services powering salons and spas worldwide. You’ll work with Java, RESTful APIs, and modern cloud tech, contributing to a distributed platform and influencing architectural decisions.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers and designers to translate business requirements into robust features, maintainable code, and scalable systems while embracing best practices and continuous

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Java

Object-oriented design

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

JavaScript

Distributed systems

Docker

Serverless

Cloud technologies

Tools

Docker

Serverless Framework

Job description

Phorest is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer in Ireland to design, build and scale backend services powering salons and spas worldwide. You’ll work with Java, RESTful APIs, and modern cloud tech, contributing to a distributed platform and influencing architectural decisions.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers and designers to translate business requirements into robust features, maintainable code, and scalable systems while embracing best practices and continuous