Senior Software Engineer – Integrations & Partnerships

Phorest Software

Senior Software Engineer developing integrations and partnerships for Phorest, a leading salon software company. Drive innovative solutions within a high-scale, distributed system to impact millions of users.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GraphQLJavaJavaScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Push the boundaries of modern backend development to build fast, ambitious web applications that will delight our clients.
Collaborate closely with our product team to build features that have a significant business impact.
Proactively identify bottlenecks and improve our frontend developer experience.
Work with our design team to build elegant and intuitive UI components.
Understand our business context deeply and leverage engineering knowledge to come up with creative solutions to problems.
Thrive in a small, nimble team comprising technical experts.
Prioritise quality and high standards by continually applying high coding standards, excellent attention to detail, and a methodological work process.
Demonstrate and drive proper coding techniques, including maintainability, reuse, clean code, and unit testing within the team.
Develop automated unit and acceptance tests to ensure software meets design criteria.
Never stop learning; pursue the latest technologies, seek the best solutions, and always look to improve.
Coach and help teammates through code reviews and whiteboarding sessions.
Get involved at a team level in designing and implementing solutions.
Challenge the norm and aren't afraid to voice their opinion.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong proficiency and at least 5 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design, primarily Java
Knowledge and understanding of JavaScript, its fundamentals, and latest developments in JavaScript
Experience in working with and building RESTful APIs (GraphQL a bonus)
The ability to reason about trade-offs when discussing backend technologies
Ability to inspire and motivate, to improve quality and productivity, maintaining technical innovation and excellence
Quality & high standards really matter to us - you will focus on continually applying high coding standards, excellent attention to detail and a methodological work process.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Your wellbeing is important to us - we provide private healthcare, 2 Wellness Days, an employee assistance program and a free online GP service.
As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide competitive Compensation, an Employee Share Purchase Scheme, Pension, Life Assurance, and Income Protection.
We help you travel by providing a bike to work scheme as well as tax saver transport tickets.
We support the women who work in Phorest by offering 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause.
We care for your family and provide Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits.
We grow our own timber! We provide a great learning environment and extensive development opportunities. We run development programs and provide access to many online resources including LinkedIn learning.
Moving house? Phorest employees get 3 moving days.

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaJavaScriptobject-oriented software designRESTful APIsGraphQLunit testingautomated testingclean codecoding standardsmethodological work process

Soft Skills

collaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailcoachinginspirationmotivationcommunicationcreativityteamworkadaptability