Software Engineer (PHP) - Remote

We're Plentific, the world’s leading real-time property solution, and we're looking for top talent to join our ambitious team. We’re a global company, headquartered in London, and operating across the United Kingdom, Germany and North America.

As a B2B company, we're dedicated to helping landlords, letting agents and property managers streamline operations, unlock revenue, increase tenant satisfaction, and remain compliant through our award-winning SaaS technology platform. We also work with SMEs and large service providers, helping them access more work and grow their businesses.

We're not just any proptech - we're backed by some of the biggest names in the business, including A/O PropTech, Highland Europe, Mubadala, RXR Digital Ventures and Target Global and work with some of the world’s most prominent real estate players.

But we're not just about business - we're also building stronger communities where people can thrive by ensuring the quality and safety of buildings, supporting decarbonisation through our ESG Retrofit Centre of Excellence and championing diversity across the sector through the Women’s Trade Network. We're committed to creating exceptional experiences for our team members, too. Our culture is open and empowering, and we're always looking for passionate, driven individuals to join us on our mission.

So, what's in it for you?

• A fast-paced, friendly, collaborative and hybrid/flexible working environment
• Ample opportunities for career growth and progression
• A multicultural workplace with over 20 nationalities that value diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Prioritisation of well-being with social events, digital learning, career development programs and much more

If you're ready to join a dynamic and innovative team that’s pioneering change in real estate, we'd love to hear from you.

The Role

This is a fully remote position based anywhere in UK, Germany, Turkey, Poland, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

You will be developing and maintaining Drupal based websites and systems as part of our award winning multi-disciplinary team of developers, designers and product managers.

We build systems of all kinds across the local government and social housing sectors, meaning every project that you work on will provide its own unique challenges.

We are looking for an experienced PHP developer to join the Resident Experience team. You will be creating and maintaining resident portals; this involves creation of bespoke modules, implementation of existing modules, and integration with various third party systems. These portals are used by a large number of people across the UK to help manage their tenancies. You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager for the Resident Experience team, but will work daily with members of the project management team, customer success team, as well as other developers. Occasionally, you may be required to join calls with our clients to help with troubleshooting, scoping, and to support non-technical stakeholders with more technical discussions.

We maintain a friendly working environment and provide you with all the tools you’ll need to plan, develop, test and deploy code of the highest quality.

Responsibilities

• Be the main contributor for streams of work, including entire resident portals, and are able to own and defend the work completed

• Collaborate with project stakeholders to ensure that client business needs are met through the software that we develop.
• Ensure that you follow best coding practices, documentation, code reviews, unit and integration testing throughout all software developed.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to ensure the reliability and security of our software.
• Continuously learn and stay updated on emerging technologies, tools, and industry trends.
• Contribute to the improvement of development processes and workflows to enhance team productivity and efficiency.

Requirements

Skills

• A self-starter who assumes responsibility for their work, accepts direction and feedback from co-workers and managers and is able to own the software developed
• Attention to detail when building resilient software
• Amenable to learning other systems and frameworks and contributing to the wider team’s efforts
• Excellent communication skills in English

Experience and Qualifications

• At least 2+ years of experience working with PHP and frameworks.
• Strong PHP, SQL, and JavaScript skills.
• Experience with testing frameworks
• Version control systems experience such as Git
• Competency with the command line, and command line tools.
• Working experience with macOS and Linux systems

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
• 25 days annual holiday
• Flexible working environment including the option to work abroad
• Private health care for you and immediate family members with discounted gym membership, optical, dental and private GP
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life insurance (4x salary)
• Employee assistance program
• Company volunteering day and charity salary sacrifice scheme
• Learning management system powered by Udemy
• Referral bonus and charity donation if someone you introduce joins the company
• Season ticket loan, Cycle to work, Electric vehicle and Techscheme programs
• Pension scheme
• Opportunity to work abroad
• Regular company-sponsored lunches, dinners and social gatherings
• Fully stocked kitchen with drinks, snacks, fruit, breakfast cereal etc.