Staff Backend Engineer (London)

Overview

As a Staff Backend Engineer at Fresha, you will steer high-impact backend work within a cross-functional team shaping the platform for global beauty and wellness professionals. You’ll own architecture, drive cross-team initiatives, and raise the bar on stability, performance, and scalability. You’ll work in a fast-paced, autonomous environment, contributing to a migration toward microservices and leveraging AI augmentation to accelerate delivery. This is a hands-on, influential role with clear impact on Fresha’s technical trajectory.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexi-time (around core hours)
• Competitive salaries & RSUs
• Travel coverage for workshops and events
• Onsite in London with remote Wednesdays
• Opportunity to influence migration to microservices
• Learning and design/deploy of complex applications

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver cross-team technical initiatives
• Take ownership of tribe architecture
• Provide technical guidance to product teams
• Lead improvements in stability, performance, and scalability of critical systems
• Ensure timely delivery of projects with tangible business impact
• Lead by example to enforce engineering practices
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data and QA to deliver value
• Foster continuous learning and improvement for the team
• Ensure systems meet Fresha quality, reliability, and scalability standards
• Anticipate technical changes and keep Fresha ahead of the curve
• Act as a multiplier by building tools or policies to boost team productivity
• Communicate technical direction externally and internally to build consensus

Key requirements

• AI-Augmented Workflow experience with integrating AI agents into engineering pipelines
• Delivery of large systems involving multiple teams on time and at high quality
• Strong problem-solving and rapid breakdown of complex problems
• Proficiency in debugging complex issues
• Strategic involvement in multi-year technology planning for critical areas
• Architectural design capabilities enabling multiple future scenarios
• Ability to build relationships and influence across the business
• Facilitation and consensus-building for technical decisions
• Planning short- to mid-term technical direction (6–12 months)
• Mentorship and role-modeling for technical staff
• Proven track record of simplifying complex projects and architectures
• Experience shaping broad architectures and shipping large services or infrastructure
• Impact-driven with visible effects on a company’s technical trajectory
• Team-player, proactive, and adaptable in fast-paced settings

• team-player
• communication
• facilitation
• AI agent integration in workflows
• large-scale system delivery
• architecture for multi-team environments

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