Senior Backend Engineer

About Us At Plentific, we’re redefining property management in real time. Our mission is to lead real estate through the transformative journey into “The World of Now,” enabling us to empower property professionals through our innovative, cloud-based platform. We harness cutting-edge technology and data-driven insights to streamline operations for landlords, letting agents, and property managers—enabling them to optimize maintenance, manage repairs, and make informed decisions instantly. Our platform is designed to create seamless, real-time workflows that transform traditional property management into a dynamic, digital experience. Backed by a world-class group of investors—including Noa, Highland Europe, Brookfields, Mubadala, RXR Digital Ventures, and Target Global—Plentific is at the forefront of the proptech revolution. Headquartered in London with a global outlook, we’re continually expanding our reach and impact. We’re looking for forward-thinking, passionate professionals who are ready to contribute to our mission and drive industry innovation. If you’re excited about making an immediate impact and shaping the future of property management, explore career opportunities with us at Plentific. The Role Fully Remote Position . We currently have a number of remote engineers based in the UK, Germany, Turkey, Poland, Italy, Spain and Portugal. We’re looking for an experienced (or senior) backend engineer to join the engineering team. You’ll be working alongside a highly technical and motivated team and supported by a Product Manager and Engineering Manager. You would be expected to apply fundamental engineering and mathematical skills to solve problems and overcome challenges, not just develop code. For people with the right mindset, this frame of mind provides an intellectually stimulating environment. The engineering team sits at the centre of everything we do at Plentific and is constantly tackling challenging problems, such as online payments, quoting, invoicing, booking, search / scoring algorithms, ETL, data pipelines, in-app messaging, real-time notifications and fraud prevention. Our backend engineers mostly work with Python and Django on an increasingly more service-oriented architecture. The rest of the tech stack includes Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, AWS, React.js, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Celery, Pandas, Numpy, Git, Jenkins and Elasticsearch. We have a very large but clean code base as we put significant emphasis on design patterns, code readability, automated testing, maintainability and extendability. Responsibilities Work with product owners, engineering managers, user interface designers and other software engineers to write technical documents that identify software project requirements Write well-formulated, testable and readable code using appropriate software design patterns Design, build and maintain APIs, microservices and data pipelines Design, normalise and optimise relational databases Write complex SQL queries to get data from the database Optimise APIs and database queries to improve speed of execution Participate in code reviews Debug and fix bugs across our applications Review, maintain and refactor existing code to meet the requirements for improved or new features Write technical documentation of code, algorithms and APIs Help in drafting of end-user manuals Experience and Qualifications 5+ years experience (Python/Django is a plus) Ability to work UK working hours (+/- 3 hours) Strong computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms and software design patterns Experience in relational database management and SQL query optimisation Passion for writing clean, modular, well-commented, readable and reusable code Ability to think out of the box with a can-do attitude to get things done efficiently Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate technical concepts in plain English Experience in writing technical documentation. Experience in managing more junior team members Benefits As you can see, we are quickly progressing with our ambitious plans and are eager to grow our team of doers to achieve our vision of managing over 2 million properties through our platform across various countries. You can help us shape the future of property management across the globe. Here’s what we offer: A competitive compensation package Flexible working environment #J-18808-Ljbffr