Staff Backend Engineer (B2B - Warsaw)

Location: Warsaw, Poland Hybrid (4 days on-site / 1 day remote)

Contract: B2B 2542k PLN net /month + RSUs

Fresha: Shaping the Future of Beauty & Wellness

Join Fresha, the leading marketplace platform transforming the beauty and wellness industry globally. With over 120,000 businesses and 450,000 stylists trusting our platform, we've powered over 1 billion appointments worldwide. Fresha empowers businesses with an all-in-one platform for bookings, point-of-sale, marketing, and more, while connecting consumers to local services.

Your Impact as a Staff Backend Engineer

Are you ready to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, autonomous environment? We're seeking an exceptional Staff Backend Engineer to join our cross-functional product team in Warsaw.

What You'll Do:

* Technical - this is a heavily technical role; hands-on coding skills are expected. Its not a management role

* Leadership - Own and deliver cross-team and cross tribal technical initiatives

* Architectural - Take ownership of architecture for a tribe

* Guidance - Sought out for technical guidance; anticipating technical issues at the product level and making architectural and design decisions to avoid them

* Improvements - Create sweeping improvements in stability, performance and scalability across major business-critical systems

* Delivery - Ensure timely delivery of your teams projects, which will ultimately have a tangible impact on Freshas success

* Lead-by-example - Make sure your team follows our engineering practices by leading from the front

* Collaboration - Work closely with diverse functions within the team across Product, Design, Data and QA and make sure that the team has clear goals and regularly delivers value to our users

* Learning - Facilitate continuous learning and improvement for your team

* Standards - Make sure that the systems your team owns meet Fresha quality, reliability and scalability standards

* Innovative - You will be anticipating broad technical changes and ensuring Fresha is always ahead of the curve

* Strategic - Recognising and making trade-offs concerning the whole system. You have a deep understanding of the entire architecture for a significant part of our business, and youre able to articulate clearly the scaling and reliability limits of that area.

* Multiplier - Primarily acting as a multiplier by building systems, authoring tools or introducing policies or patterns that raise the level of productivity of the entire organisation

* Communication - Communicating the awesomeness of Fresha in different Tech communities externally via talks and blog posts, identifying areas that we can share effectively with the outside world, guiding the creation of content and communication around those areas. Leading conversations internally about the direction of significant areas of technology, driving wide-team consensus on the adoption of this direction and using this direction to inspire engineers

This list is not exhaustive, and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.

What we are looking for

Delivery - You have consistently delivered large systems involving one or more teams contributions on time at a high level of quality
Problem-solving - Youve had to quickly break down complex problems into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, in order to get a solid resolution faster
Debugging - Youre 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 - Youre 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 companys 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

At Fresha, we value passion and potential as much as specific skills. If you're enthusiastic and eager to learn, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't meet every listed requirement. We believe in fostering growth and providing the support needed for you to excel in your role.

Why Join Fresha?

Real Impact: Directly influence our product and architecture in a rapidly growing global business.
Cutting-Edge Tech: Work with modern technologies and contribute to a significant migration to microservices.
Dynamic Culture: Be part of a team that encourages autonomy and innovation.

Don't meet every requirement? We value passion and potential. Apply today and let's grow together!

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.
Hybrid work (4 days in the office per week)
Flexi-time (around core hours)
Competitive salaries & RSUs
20 days PTO
Travel coverage when visiting teammates - through workshops and social events

Interview Process

Video call screening with member from the Talent Team - 45-60 minutes
Part 1: Video call/In-person meeting with CTO & Chief Architect (Culture fit & high level tech) - 60 minutes
Part 2: Video call/In-person technical stage with Head of Data Engineering + 1 Backend Engineer - Up to 2.5 hours
Part 3: Video call/In-person meeting with Head of Engineering / CTO / Chief Architect - 1 hour

We aim to complete the entire interview process and deliver feedback within 4 weeks.

Every job application received is reviewed manually by our talent team. While we strive to assess applications within 7 days, the sheer volume of talented individuals expressing interest may occasionally extend this timeframe

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