Description
About Fresha
Fresha is the leading marketplace platform for beauty & wellness trusted by millions of consumers and businesses worldwide.
Fresha is used by 120,000+ 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.
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
Fresha is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer, with a background or hands-on in software development, whether at work (Software Engineer) or on side projects, to join our Platform and Infrastructure Engineering Team. 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.
Platform team's mission is to "Improve software development lifecycle to be: Reliable, Secure, Fast & Cost-effective", ensuring we always take the proper steps to prioritise their needs and ability to reach their optimal velocity while optimising our budgets and keeping our costs flexible to meet business objectives. We achieve this by the following:
"We build simple, composable components"
* Each service does one thing well
*Clear interfaces over complex implementations
* Push complexity to the edges where it belongs
"We make adoption optional, value mandatory"
* Engineers choose their tools and approaches
* Platform features win by being better, not by force
* Only security and compliance are non-negotiable
"We invest in knowledge and automation equally"
* Build with future AI assistance in mind
* Document context and decisions, not just steps
* Automate repetitive tasks
To foster a collaborative environment that thrives on face-to-face interactions and teamwork, all Fresha employees work from our dog-friendly office 4 days per week, with the flexibility to work remotely one day each week. London office address: The Bower, The Tower, 207 Old St, London EC1V 9NR
As a Senior Platform Engineer, we want you to be a driving force in improving how our platform and its services are developed. Regardless of the stage in its lifecycle, we want to ensure that we offer engineers the right solution for the job that will make the Fresha engineering department better than yesterday and industry-leading. Like most incredible teams in history, we strive to achieve this with strong collaboration and communication (with our engineers).
Tech Stack:
- Docker in production and local development
- AWS EKS
- Kafka for our asynchronous message queues
- Elixir / Ruby for main services
- NextJS/Typescript for our frontend 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:
- Architecture - Define and develop the infrastructure architecture to support multi-region deployments
- Automation - Seek out processes that can be improved with automation and have internal Developer Experience as the main driver.
- Leadership - Effectively scope and lead projects autonomously.
- Developer Experience - Extend our local development experience offerings for engineers
- Knowledge Sharing - Enrich knowledge across the department by creating Documentation, SOPs, Runbooks and fascinating knowledge-sharing sessions
- Observability - Extend Monitoring & Observability capabilities.
- Accessibility - Simplifying the process for engineers to access this data
- Collaboration - Collaborate and enable engineers to do their jobs more efficiently
- Efficiency - Developing tools to maximise engineering efficiency, such as automating the rollback of deployed applications.
We'd love to hear from you if you:
- Have experience in software development
- Demonstrate strong opinions and actively contribute ideas, driving discussions and solutions.
- Are deeply passionate about their work and proactively challenge existing processes to foster continuous improvement.
- Experience working with microservices and distributed systems at scale
- Have experience with working on cross-team projects
- Have AWS experience, we use EKS, RDS, S3, Cloudfront and MSK excessively
- Have an understanding of SLIs, SLOs & SLAs
- Knowledge of platform and ops concepts such as networking and Linux administration
- Experience with monitoring tools: we use Datadog, Grafana, ELK, Sentry and OpsGenie.
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.
Other Jobs from Fresha
Senior iOS Engineer
Remote
London, UK
Senior iOS Engineer - Warsaw
Remote
Warsaw, Poland
Android Engineer
Remote
London, UK
Senior Analytics Engineer
Remote
London, UK
Head of Engineering
Remote
London, UK
There are more than 50,000 engineering jobs:
Subscribe to membership and unlock all jobs
Engineering Jobs
60,000+ jobs from 4,500+ well-funded companies
Updated Daily
New jobs are added every day as companies post them
Refined Search
Use filters like skill, location, etc to narrow results
Become a member
🥳🥳🥳 452 happy customers and counting...
Overall, over 80% of customers chose to renew their subscriptions after the initial sign-up.
To try it out
For active job seekers
For those who are passive looking
Cancel anytime
Frequently Asked Questions
- We prioritize job seekers as our customers, unlike bigger job sites, by charging a small fee to provide them with curated access to the best companies and up-to-date jobs. This focus allows us to deliver a more personalized and effective job search experience.
- We've got about 70,000 jobs from 5,000 vetted companies. No fake or sleazy jobs here!
- We aggregate jobs from 5,000+ companies' career pages, so you can be sure that you're getting the most up-to-date and relevant jobs.
- We're the only job board *for* software engineers, *by* software engineers… in case you needed a reminder! We add thousands of new jobs daily and offer powerful search filters just for you. 🛠️
- Every single hour! We add 2,000-3,000 new jobs daily, so you'll always have fresh opportunities. 🚀
- Typically, job searches take 3-6 months. EchoJobs helps you spend more time applying and less time hunting. 🎯
- Check daily! We're always updating with new jobs. Set up job alerts for even quicker access. 📅
What Fellow Engineers Say
