Principal Frontend Engineer, Fresha

Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
Koa
JavaScript
Cypress
Gatsby
Simplicity
Expert level
London

3-4 days a week in office

Fresha

Booking software for beauty & wellness brands

Open for applications

Fresha

Booking software for beauty & wellness brands

201-500 employees

B2BMarketplaceInternal toolsProductivitySaaSBeautyWellbeing

Open for applications

Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
Koa
JavaScript
Cypress
Gatsby
Simplicity
Expert level
London

3-4 days a week in office

201-500 employees

B2BMarketplaceInternal toolsProductivitySaaSBeautyWellbeing

Company mission

To empower beauty and wellness businesses and help millions look and feel their best.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience with building SPAs at scale, ideally both consumer-facing and business-facing, ensuring that large numbers of teams can work on the same codebase & product without much friction
  • Strong communication skills, both upwards and downwards, be able to drive initiatives/have some management skills
  • 10+ years of professional experience writing SPAs applications in Javascript, experience with Typescript
  • Strong experience with React including current trends
  • Value simplicity and speed of iteration over complex design and scalability
  • Experience building websites developed by a large (>3) number of teams
  • Experience with web app performance, monitoring, and optimisation
  • Experience with web architecture at scale (20krpm and above)
  • Experience with NodeJS & building web APIs
  • Experience with frameworks such as Gatsby, NextJS, Remix
  • Experience with frontend tooling & building pipelines in modern CI platforms. One of: CircleCI, Travis, Gitlab CI, Github Actions

Desirable

  • Experience working in cross-functional team environments (fe, be, data, etc all on the same team)
  • Experience leading swat teams
  • Experiences leading cross-team, cross-tribal initiatives
  • Experience within a start-up or scale-up
  • Experience with server frameworks such as Express, Koa, NestJS
  • Experience with end-to-end testing, especially Cypress

What the job involves

  • Fresha is seeking an experienced Principal Frontend Engineer who can lead the frontend guild, provide mentorship and vision for our frontend engineers, and drive the overall quality and productivity across the entire organisation
  • Leading the frontend guild, including chairing the weekly guild meetings, helping members drive initiatives, and providing feedback and guidance to these members
  • Leading the frontend platform team, including managing priorities, agenda, backlog, etc
  • Owning the overall quality and delivery speed of our various SPAs, including architecture, performance metrics (TTFB, TTI), code structure, tooling & style guides, pipelines, etc
  • Reporting on the status of our frontend & its various initiatives to our senior leadership, including the CTO and C-suite
  • Being a mentor to staff engineers & tech leads, helping them plan/architect solutions they’re responsible for and helping them resolve problems they have
  • Occasional travel to Poland is needed, usually around 1 week every quarter

Salary benchmarks

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

Fresha allows consumers to discover, book and pay for beauty and wellness appointments with local businesses via its centralised marketplace, while beauty and wellness businesses and professionals use its all-in-one platform to manage their entire operations.

The company has taken a different approach compared to rivals in the salon management space. Rather than charging monthly, its software is free to use, and charges when a booking is made through the system. Fresha's platform also offers a range of financial products, making it an appealing option for salon operators. This has allowed the company to swiftly build a network of merchants for its marketplace, and it has over 80,000 partner businesses processing over 30 million appointments a month.

Now that Fresha has solved the chicken-and-egg problem of starting a marketplace, it is using its market position to scale quickly. It now has 100,000 partner venues and is working within 120 countries. Between 2021 and 2023, it enjoyed 190% growth in its global bookings.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

28% female employees

4% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Dec 2021

$52.5m

SERIES C

Jun 2021

$100m

SERIES C

Total funding: $195m

Company benefits

  • Work from home opportunities
  • Fast track career progression
  • Yoga and Pilates through WeWork membership
  • Travel coverage when visiting teammates - through workshops and social events
  • A vibrant and collaborative company culture
  • Company social events

Company values

  • Empathy
  • Imagination
  • Creativity
  • Commitment

Company HQ

London, UK

Founders

Previously VP of Technology at Dubai Holding (investment management). Digital Services Manager for New Zealand Human Rights Convention

Nick Miller

(Product Chief)

Previously a Programme Manager for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. Founded a business with William in 2005 (a strong signal of their partnership)


People progressing

Joined as a Junior Developer. Promoted to Front End Developer after 10 months.

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