Frontend Engineer - Payment

About Phorest

Phorest is a growing tech company on a mission to help beauty businesses thrive. Our software empowers premium salons, spas, and aesthetic clinics around the globe with a suite of tools designed to enhance client experiences, streamline operations, and drive business growth. With a presence in the heart of the beauty industry, we are committed to fostering innovation, excellence, and community. At Phorest, we don’t just build software – we build success stories.

Our system touches every point of the salon experience. We have the in-salon software desktop application, Phorest Go (the native staff application), online bookings website for salons, and custom native apps per salon. In a typical month, Phorest processes 3 million appointments and we send over 3 million SMS and 4 million emails. We process 200k online bookings per month and over 150 custom built white label native apps.

The Opportunity

Phorest is expanding its Payments solutions, delivering both online and in-store payment experiences to thousands of businesses every day. As a Frontend Engineer in the Payments Pillar, you’ll play a key role in building intuitive, reliable, and high-quality user experiences that support our growing payments platform. Working as part of one of the teams within the Payments Pillar, you’ll collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, Backend Engineers, and QA Engineers to deliver features that make payment experiences seamless for our customers. You’ll contribute throughout the product lifecycle, from technical design and implementation to testing, deployment, and continuous improvement.

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about creating exceptional user experiences, writing clean and maintainable code, and solving complex frontend challenges. You’ll have the opportunity to influence technical decisions, improve our frontend architecture, and contribute to engineering best practices while working on products that process millions of transactions every year. If you enjoy working in a collaborative environment, value continuous learning, and want to help shape the future of payments at Phorest, we’d love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

• Push the boundaries of modern frontend 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

• 4 - 8+ years' professional experience with React, Ember.js, or another modern JavaScript framework.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, modern front-end development, and web fundamentals.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs (GraphQL is a bonus).
• Able to evaluate technical trade-offs and contribute to architectural and engineering decisions.
• Committed to writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code with a strong focus on quality and engineering excellence.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence technical direction and raise engineering standards across the team.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Ember.js (or a willingness to learn it, as it's the team's primary framework).
• Background in payments, fintech, or e-commerce.

Benefits

• 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 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.

Phorest is an equal opportunity employer. For this position, flexi-time and working from home is possible. We are also open to remote work. Get in touch to ask for more information or to chat about your future with Phorest!

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalised folks tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.