Fresha is a leading marketplace platform transforming the beauty and wellness industry globally. They are seeking an exceptional Staff Backend Engineer to join their cross-functional product team in Warsaw. This is a heavily technical role requiring hands-on coding skills and leadership abilities to own and deliver technical initiatives, improve stability, performance, and scalability, and ensure timely delivery of projects with a tangible impact on Fresha's success.
Requirements
- Delivery - You have consistently delivered large systems involving one or more teams’ contributions on time at a high level of quality
- Problem-solving - You’ve had to quickly break down complex problems into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, in order to get a solid resolution faster
- Debugging - You’re capable of debugging the hairiest problems that the team encounters
- Strategy - Played a key role in developing multi-year technology strategy for complete and critical areas of the business that encompass multiple systems and teams
- Adaptability - You have created an architecture that enables many potential futures without knowing exactly what the future is
- Relationships - Ability to interact with people from across the business and build strong relationships, including the ability to effectively influence upwards
- Facilitation - Listened and guided debates to help reach consensus; once a decision is made clearly communicate the decision(s) back
- Planning - Set short to medium-term strategic technical direction, able to look ahead 6-12 months identify areas of greatest need and create plans to improve them
- Mentorship - You’re seen as a role model and mentor to every technical member of the team
- Contribution - Recognised as a prolific contributor to core and side projects
- Simplification - Consistently reduced the complexity of projects, services, and processes to get more done with less work
- Architecture - Shaped broad architecture; shipped multiple large services, complex libraries or major pieces of infrastructure
- Impact - Made obvious positive impact on an entire company’s technical trajectory
- Team-player - Happy to roll sleeves up and assist the team when required (team player)
- Proactive - Self-starter and proactive approach
- Adaptive - Comfortable working in a fast-paced and changing environment
Benefits
- Taking part in the decision making process of migration to microservices
- Learn how to design, deploy and maintain complex applications
- Help us to introduce other technologies such as serverless services, SQS, continuous delivery and deployment and more
- Competitive salaries & RSUs
- Travel coverage when visiting teammates - through workshops and social events