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

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

• 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 can wear multiple hats
• Feedback - Someone relishes critical feedback in the pursuit of building world-class products

• 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

• 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…