Software Engineer

Job Title

Software Engineer

Description

Salon Group is seeking a Software Engineer who will champion collaborative mentorship while building reliable user-centered systems that support salon operations client booking point of sale and retail workflows. This role combines hands-on engineering with a strong focus on developing others: you will coach peers lead knowledge sharing and cultivate best practices across the engineering team and cross-functional partners including operations product and design.

Responsibilities

• Design develop and maintain web and mobile backend and frontend components that power booking POS inventory and client experience features.
• Act as a mentor and technical coach: run pair programming sessions lead code reviews and create onboarding and learning materials for junior and mid-level engineers.
• Collaborate with product managers designers and salon operations to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Drive engineering best practices including testing CI/CD observability and security across projects.
• Lead architecture discussions and propose improvements to system reliability performance and maintainability.
• Design and implement integrations with third-party services such as payment gateways SMS/email providers and calendar systems.
• Measure and improve system performance error rates and user-facing latency while maintaining a high bar for quality.
• Cultivate a supportive engineering culture that values continuous learning feedback and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience or demonstrable experience building production systems.
• 3 years of professional software engineering experience preferred with demonstrated mentorship or team leadership responsibilities.
• Proven experience building web applications and APIs and shipping features end to end.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams delivering user-focused products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• A track record of mentoring engineers running effective code reviews and improving team engineering practices.
• Comfort with iterative development agile processes and continuous delivery practices.

Skills

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• React
• Express
• RESTful API
• GraphQL
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• SQL
• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• End-to-end Testing
• Jest
• CI/CD
• Git
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• OAuth2
• Accessibility
• Responsive Design
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Technical Mentorship
• Code Review
• Pair Programming
• Agile
• API Design
• Performance Optimization
• Application Security
• Monitoring and Observability
• Sass