The Opportunity

We are looking for a new Senior Software Engineer to join our Integrations & Partnerships Team. You will join a team who are responsible for building and maintaining Phorest’s partnership platform by implementing integrations and exposing Phorest’s capabilities through our API. This empowers developers, partners, and clients to innovate, create new solutions, and drive growth within our ecosystem.

You will be shaping the future of a high-scale, distributed system, leveraging event-driven architecture and modern cloud technologies like Docker and Serverless. Your contributions will impact millions of users globally. You will be solving complex problems in an environment where we look to continuously improve and learn. We work with feature flags and continuous delivery to ensure our work gets to production as fast as possible.

What You'll Do

• 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.

Who You Are

• 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