About Fresha

Fresha is the world''s largest and top-rated booking platform for Beauty and Wellness trusted by millions of consumers worldwide.

Available in 120+ countries worldwide, Fresha is used by 80,000+ businesses and 300,000+ professionals worldwide, who have booked over 600 million appointments through Fresha already. Fresha is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with global offices located in New York City, Vancouver, Sydney, Dublin, Amsterdam, and Warsaw. The company raised $185M in venture capital funding to date from leading institutional investors.

Fresha allows consumers to discover, book and pay for beauty and wellness appointments with local businesses via its marketplace, while beauty and wellness businesses and professionals use an all-in-one platform to manage their entire operations with its intuitive free business software and financial technology solutions.

Our ecosystem gives merchants everything they need to run their business seamlessly by facilitating appointment bookings, point-of-sale, customer records management, marketing automation, loyalty, beauty products inventory and team management.

The consumer marketplace unlocks revenue potential for partner businesses by leveraging the power of online bookings and automated marketing through mobile apps and advanced integrations with major tech brands including Instagram, Facebook and Google.

Role overview:

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.

The ideal candidate will have 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. The candidate will also have strong communication skills, both upwards and downwards, be able to drive initiatives/have some management skills.

Who will love this job

Someone who’s passionate about quality, always eager to make things better for our customers
Someone who’s data-driven. Knows what metrics to track, how to make them better, and celebrates incremental wins and achievements that deliver on the overall strategy
Someone who enjoys working in a startup environment, where roles are more flexible and more rewarding. Someone who can wear multiple hats
Someone who relishes critical feedback in the pursuit of building world-class products

What are this role’s responsibilities

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

What context do you need to know

Fresha is a booking & payment management solution, and a marketplace for salons, barbershops, and various wellness venues
We have 2 main SPAs: B2C, and B2B. Both are written in React and use Redux. We are in the process of phasing out Redux in our B2C app in favor of hooks
We use Typescript for everything, including API contracts (which are auto-generated)
We use our own engine for SSR for our two main SPAs, with a few smaller ones in Remix
We have a team in the platform tribe dedicated to maintaining and improving our frontend architecture & tooling, which you’ll be responsible for

Essential Requirements:

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

Nice to haves:

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

Benefits

Flexi-time (around core hours)
Competitive salaries & RSUs
Pension plan (5% self + 3% company contribution)
25 days PTO (+8 bank holidays)
Weekly office lunches (Fridays)
Hybrid - 3-4 days onsite/week

At Fresha, creating a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable matters.

We want all Fresha people to feel included and truly empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals. Everyone who applies will receive fair consideration for employment.

We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

If you have any accessibility requirements that would make you more comfortable during the interview process and/or once you join, please let us know so that we can support you.

If we don''t respond to your application within 7 days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful