Staff Backend Engineer (London)

Fresha
London, Warsaw
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical guidance","Mentorship","Consensus building","Relationship building","Strategic planning"]

Own backend architecture and deliver cross-team technical initiatives as a Staff Backend Engineer. You’ll lead-by-example on engineering practices, guide complex design and reliability decisions, and drive stability, performance, and scalability improvements across critical systems. Working closely with Product, Design, Data, and QA, you’ll help set technical direction for 6–12 months, mentor engineers, and communicate technology direction through engineering community talks and writing.

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Fresha
Fresha
1 month ago

Staff Backend Engineer (London)

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Job Summary

Own backend architecture and deliver cross-team technical initiatives as a Staff Backend Engineer. You’ll lead-by-example on engineering practices, guide complex design and reliability decisions, and drive stability, performance, and scalability improvements across critical systems. Working closely with Product, Design, Data, and QA, you’ll help set technical direction for 6–12 months, mentor engineers, and communicate technology direction through engineering community talks and writing.
Location: London, Warsaw
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and deliver cross-team and cross-tribal technical initiatives as a heavily technical, hands-on role.
  • •Take ownership of architecture for a tribe and make architectural and design decisions to avoid product-level issues.
  • •Create major improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems.
  • •Ensure timely delivery of your team’s projects and that systems meet Fresha quality, reliability, and scalability standards.
  • •Lead from the front with engineering practices, collaborate across Product/Design/Data/QA, and mentor engineers.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:RsusRemote WorkFlexible HoursTravel Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •Deep experience building and interacting with AI agents and integrating them into a secure, architecture-compliant workflow.
  • •Consistently delivered large systems on time with high quality across one or more teams’ contributions.
  • •Strong problem-solving and debugging skills for complex, difficult production issues.
  • •Played a key role in multi-year technology strategy across critical areas spanning multiple systems and teams.
  • •Shaped broad architecture by shipping large services, complex libraries, or major pieces of infrastructure.
Skills:Technical guidanceMentorshipConsensus buildingRelationship buildingStrategic planning
Tech Stack:ClaudeGitHub CopilotCursorMicroservicesServerlessSQSContinuous deliveryDeployment

Company Brief

Fresha
Fresha operates a global bookings and business management platform for salons, spas and beauty professionals, offering appointment scheduling, point-of-sale, payments, marketing tools and a consumer marketplace to connect clients with local services.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2015
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