Principal Frontend Engineer

About Fresha Fresha is the leading marketplace platform for beauty & wellness trusted by millions of consumers and businesses worldwide. Fresha is used by 130,000+ businesses and 450,000+ stylists and professionals worldwide, processing over 1 billion appointments to date. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with 15 global offices located across North America, EMEA and APAC. 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 an intuitive business software and financial technology solutions. Fresha’s 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. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to work in a fast-paced and changing environment, who likes to work autonomously, enjoys a challenge and wants to make an impact. To foster a collaborative environment that thrives on face-to-face interactions and teamwork, all Fresha employees work from our dog friendly office four days per week, with the flexibility to work remotely on Wednesday each week. London office: The Bower, 207, 211 Old St, London EC1V 9NR Who will love this job Passionate - Someone who’s passionate about quality, always eager to make things better for our customers Data-driven - Knows what metrics to track, how to make them better, and celebrates incremental wins and achievements that deliver on the overall strategy Autonomy - Someone who enjoys working in a startup environment, where roles are more flexible and more rewarding. Someone who can wear multiple hats Feedback - Someone who relishes critical feedback in the pursuit of building world-class products What you will be doing Leadership - Lead the frontend guild, including chairing the weekly guild meetings, helping members drive initiatives, and providing feedback and guidance to these members Prioritisation - Leading the frontend platform team, including managing priorities, agenda, backlog, etc Ownership - Owning the overall quality and delivery speed of our various SPAs, including architecture, performance metrics (TTFB, TTI), code structure, tooling & style guides, pipelines, etc Stakeholder Management - Reporting on the status of our frontend & its various initiatives to our senior leadership, including the CTO and C-suite Mentorship - Being a mentor to staff engineers & tech leads, helping them plan/architect solutions they’re responsible for and helping them resolve problems they have Travel - 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 This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver. What we are looking for Experience - 10+ years of professional experience writing SPAs applications in Javascript, experience with Typescript React - Strong experience with React including current trends Iteration - Value simplicity and speed of iteration over complex design and scalability Collaboration - Experience building websites developed by a large (>3) number of teams Optimisation - Experience with web app performance, monitoring, and optimisation Scalability - Experience with web architecture at scale (20krpm and above) APIs - Experience with NodeJS & building web APIs Frameworks - Experience with frameworks such as Gatsby, NextJS, Remix Tooling - Experience with frontend tooling & building pipelines in modern CI platforms. One of: CircleCI, Travis, Gitlab CI, Github Actions Added bonus Cross-function - Experience working in cross-functional team environments (fe, be, data, etc all on the same team) Leadership - Experience leading swat teams Initiatives - Experiences leading cross-team, cross-tribal initiatives Start-up - Experience within a start-up or scale-up Frameworks - Experience with server frameworks such as Express, Koa, NestJS Testing - Experience with end-to-end testing, especially Cypress Interview Process Screen Stage - Video call with a member from the Talent Team (45-60m) 1st Stage - Video call/In-person interview with Hiring Manager (60m) Final Stage - Video call/In-person interview with Hiring Team (up to 2.5h) We aim to finalise 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. Inclusive workforce At Fresha, we are creating a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr