Software Engineer (Python/Vue)

We pride ourselves on being people-first at Booksy, which means you know a human will always review your application. It also means that many of our team are taking a well-deserved break over the festive period. This might cause a little delay in you hearing from us. If we don’t respond by the end of 2024, we’ll definitely be in touch soon into the new year. Thanks for your interest and patience.

Booksy connects beauty, wellness and health professionals with local customers, powering millions of appointments annually. Our vision is to be the destination for scheduling, empowering service providers to thrive and consumers to discover and book services. Consumers love Booksy, with a 4.9+ app rating in the App Store & Google Play, and providers gain peace of mind when they use Booksy Biz to manage their small businesses. 

As a Booksy employee, you’ll join a team of 800+ around the world building the fastest growing appointments marketplace. Regardless of the position you hold, you’ll make a direct impact every day helping our providers grow their businesses and build loyal client relationships in their communities. Our inclusive, remote-first team operates with a shared commitment to our values:

1. People first: We empower and elevate the service provider, the consumer, and their communities.
2. Act like an owner: We take responsibility for our actions and their results.
3. Work as a team: We collaborate and care about the success of our team and others.
4. Shoot for the moon: We have ambitious goals and overcome obstacles with tenacity. 

Ready to join us? Read on for more.

In anticipation of the increasing scale and complexity of the business we’re now looking for a Software Engineer (Python/Vue).

The role of Software Engineering is paramount in realizing the product vision through code. Software engineers work hand in hand with product managers, designers, and fellow team members to grasp requirements, devise solutions, and craft scalable, top-tier software products. They are instrumental in feature implementation, maintaining product stability, and iterating based on user feedback to enhance the product continuously.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement high-quality modules, components, or APIs.
• Engage in code reviews to ensure best practices are followed and technical standards are maintained.
• Participate in planning to refine requirements, break down tasks, and provide reliable estimations. 
• Proactively identifying issues or areas for improvement in the codebase or development processes.
• Participate in continuous improvement processes to sustain operational excellence through agile and engineering best practices.

• Ability to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve medium-sized features or systems.
• Writes comprehensive tests for their code; contribute to integration testing; 
• Understanding of CI/CD process in-depth; Basic knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, Bitrise or Firebase Test Lab.
• Designs moderately complex systems with a focus on scalability and maintainability.
• Leads team projects effectively, providing guidance and support to less experienced engineers.
• Quick to adapt to new solutions and approaches to improve processes and workflows.
• Manages small projects or components, providing guidance to less experienced team members.
• Mentor junior engineers and assist them with their tasks, coding standards and best practices.
• Tailors communication to the audience, ensuring clarity and effectiveness in project updates and reports.
• Tackles more complex issues creatively.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Foster a positive team culture through open communication and feedback.

Technical requirements:

• Very good knowledge of Python programming, with a deep understanding of its syntax, data structures, and advanced features.
• Proficiency in PostgreSQL database management system, including advanced querying, performance optimization, and database administration tasks.
• Experience with Pytest for writing unit tests, test automation, and test-driven development (TDD).
• Familiarity with Docker. 
• Proficient in Elasticsearch, including indexing, querying, and performance tuning for search and analytics applications.
• Expertise of at least one major version of Vue framework and practical experience with 2nd one.
• Good knowledge of Jest framework and Vue specific testing libraries well (eg.: @testing-library/vue, @vue/test-utils).
• Understands the principles of SPA, SEO, SSR, web performance optimization and other common frontend techniques.