Senior Functional Developer (Scala) 

Are you ready to revolutionize the hair colour industry with Vish? As a Senior Functional Developer, you’ll be part of our dynamic and distributed team, creating innovative solutions that eliminate waste, manage inventory, and increase service revenue for salons. Our work has helped hair salons reduce environmental waste and thrive in different aspects of their businesses. At Vish, we’re passionate about functional programming and building things that make a difference for people and the environment.

What does a typical week look like at Vish? 

• Take steps to understand ill-posed and vague requirements and concretize them
• Design interfaces/EDSLS and write code
  • Some of the libraries we use consist of: ZIO, Cats, Doobie, Cats Effect, Scalacheck, Akka
• Review merge requests and provide feedback:
  • As comments during the review call
  • As written comments
  • As code patches
• Approve merge requests
• Conduct and participate in paired sessions for programming and review
• Estimate work complexity and provide completion estimates. Proactively communicate with stakeholders and manage expectations in case of any unforeseen circumstances

Our ideal candidate: 

We are currently looking for a Senior functional developer who is comfortable working in Scala. As a functional developer at Vish, you’ll be working on everything from customer-facing web and mobile applications while using cutting-edge open-source frameworks to highly available REStful microservices, to backend Scala-based systems while using the latest frameworks and techniques in functional programming.

• Several years of experience writing code for “production” in Scala
• Experience in multiple programming paradigms. Knowledge and experience of functional programming is a must
• Experience with (one or more of) Haskell, OCaml, F#, Erlang, Elixir, or Rust is required
• Experiences with databases (relational or NoSQL), Git, Linux CLI
• Empathy, humility and personal accountability (and one who holds others accountable)
• An individual who leads by example: by showing more then telling
• Experience with Test Driven Development and Property-Based Testing is an asset

If this sounds like you, please join us in creating solutions that help salons succeed and make a positive impact on the environment. Experience with Test-Driven Development and Property-Based Testing is an asset. Come make your mark at Vish!

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Become a Customer Success Coordinator for Vish

The Customer Success role is integral to maintaining Vish’s client-centric, service-driven focus as we scale to support growing demand.

As a Customer Success Coordinator, you will manage the customer’s onboarding process and provide customer support to salon owners and their employees. Reporting directly to the Head of Customer Success, you’ll work closely and collaboratively with other departments to ensure we’re able to provide the highest quality support for our clients.

Who are we?

Vish is changing and innovating the hair color industry. At the local level, Vish helps salons eliminate waste, manage their inventory, increase service revenue, and provide valuable insight into their color business. At the global level, Vish will revolutionize supply chain management for the entire hair color industry.

Role Requirements:

• Point of contact for our fast growing network of technology enabled hair salons across North America and the globe
• Help shepherd customers through onboarding, setup and training
• Leverage the training and support team to knock away problems as they arise while maintaining a collaborative and positive customer relationship
• Ensure all of onboarding timelines are met and are on track as well as highlighting onboarding concerns as they arise
• Utilize HubSpot / CRM to track customer data
• Manage customer support inquiries via email and phone
• Support the customer success team when necessary

Applicant Qualities:

• Very strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills
• Propensity to always want to learn and improve
• Evidence of independence and self-starter attitude
• Tech savvy with ability to navigate new software effortlessly
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) from an accredited University
• Experience with MS Excel and Google Suite
• Experience with HubSpot
• Experience with customer service
• Evidence of critical thinking and problem-solving skills

Why choose us?

Our team is a tight-knit group of aspiring professionals striving for success.
We have an innovative and diverse team of professionals. While many of us have experience working at hair salons, some of us just have a true passion for Vish technology and the beauty industry in general. We’re venture backed by some of the best tech VCs in the GTA and are partnered with top innovators in the professional hair salon industry.

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