Backend Engineer

Staff Backend Engineer (London)
Four days in the office, Wednesdays remote

About Fresha Fresha is the leading AI-powered operating system for the global beauty and wellness industry, giving businesses everything they need to run smarter, grow faster and build stronger client  May 2026, Fresha secured an $80M growth investment from KKR at a valuation of $1B, officially reaching unicorn status and bringing total funding raised to $285M. Already profitable, Fresha is using this investment to accelerate global expansion and drive the next generation of AI and product innovation.

Today, Fresha operates at global scale, with offices across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. Our platform is trusted by 130,000+ beauty and wellness businesses across 120 countries, with more than 1.5 billion appointments booked to date.

Our mission is simple: help beauty and wellness businesses grow by giving them the technology they need to attract clients, manage their operations and run their business in one place.

We’re continuing to scale rapidly across markets, teams and products, making this an exciting time to join us.

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 London.

What You'll Do:

Technical
-this is a heavily technical role; hands-on coding skills are expected. It’s 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 team’s projects, which will ultimately have a tangible impact on Fresha’s 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, and Data making 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 you’re 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.

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