Senior Backend Engineer (Remote - Poland)

Senior Backend Engineer

The AI-powered OS for beauty, wellness and self-care

About Fresha

Fresha is the AI-powered operating system for the global beauty, wellness and self-care industry, connecting and powering everything from salons and barbers to spas, medspas, fitness studios and health practices. Trusted by millions of consumers and businesses worldwide. Fresha is used by 140,000+ 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.

Role Overview

At Fresha, we believe AI is a force multiplier for feature delivery, not just a coding assistant. We provide every engineer with top-tier tooling (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to strip away technical toil—so you can focus your energy on shipping high-impact product features. We value engineers who know how to leverage these tools to drive momentum within our 6-week cycles, accelerating the journey from concept to code while maintaining the deep technical judgment to verify, secure, and own the final user experience.

Given our exciting and progressive growth plans, we are looking for an exceptional Senior Backend Engineer to come join our global business. Reporting directly to the Team Lead, and working collaboratively in a cross-functional product team within a tribe, you will be accountable for designing and developing applications and coordinating with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure Fresha.

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, you will need to travel for one week once a quarter to our quarterly team events (in London/Warsaw/Prishtina).

What you will be doing

Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Mobile engineers to take features from discovery to rollout and beyond.

Be responsible for features from discovery to observability: technical design, implementation, testing, and rollout.

Design, build, and maintain efficient, scalable, and reliable Ruby/Elixir code.

Work with a polyglot stack (Ruby, Elixir, GraphQL, TypeScript, gRPC) and modern messaging systems (Kafka).

Operate within a Kubernetes-driven environment as we continue moving to a microservice architecture.

Embrace Domain-Driven Design to build high-quality, impactful products from inception to delivery.

What we are looking for

AI-Augmented Workflow: You have deep experience building and interacting with AI agents, using them to amplify your output to 5x that of manual coding. You are able to integrate agents into our workflow while strictly adhering to our architecture and security standards, taking full accountability for ensuring all generated code meets the quality expectations of a Senior Engineer.

Experience building and maintaining globally distributed systems.

Knowledge of event-driven architectures (Kafka).

~2+ years of experience in product engineering, developer tools, or infrastructure at scale.

A pragmatic generalist who thrives on learning new frameworks and tackling complex challenges.

Familiarity with languages such as Elixir, Ruby, or TypeScript is a plus.

Why Join Fresha?

Real Impact: Directly influence our product and architecture in a rapidly growing global business.

Cutting-Edge Tech: Work with modern technologies and contribute to a significant migration to microservices.

Dynamic Culture: Be part of a team that encourages autonomy and innovation.

Don't meet every requirement? We value passion and potential. Apply today and let's grow together!

Interview Process

Screen Stage - Video-call with a member from the Talent Team (45-60min)

1st Stage - Technical video/In-person interview with the team (90min)

2nd Stage - Technical Video/In-person interview with Team (up to 2 hours)

Final Stage - Video interview with Head of Engineering / VP of Engineering (60min)

We aim to finalise the entire interview process and deliver feedback within 4 weeks. Every job application received is reviewed manually by our talent team. While we strive to assess applications within 7 days, the sheer volume of talented individuals expressing interest may occasionally extend this timeframe.

Inclusive workforce

At Fresha, we are creating a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable. We want all Fresha people to feel included and truly empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals. Everyone who applies will receive fair consideration for employment. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying. If you have any accessibility requirements that would make you more comfortable during the interview process and/or once you join, please let us know so that we can support you. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.