Software Engineer (Laravel) - Remote, UK

About Us

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

We are looking for an experienced Laravel developer to join the Resident Experience team. You will work with technical and non-technical team members to develop and maintain resident-facing systems for both new and existing clients, developing reusable modules of code, integrating our products with various third party applications. We build systems that primarily function within local government and social housing sectors that have a real impact on real people.

You will work daily with members of the project management team, customer success team, as well as other developers. You will join us as part of our award winning multi-disciplinary team of developers, designers, and project managers where each project provides its own unique challenges. You will also be required to join client calls for requirements gathering, project scoping, troubleshooting, and to support non-technical stakeholders with more technical discussions.

This is a remote position based anywhere in the UK and you have the choice of either working from home or from our London office.

Responsibilities

• Be the main contributor to streams of work, including entire client integrations, and to be able to own the work completed.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to ensure that client business needs are met through the software we develop.
• Complete feasibility tests of third party APIs.
• Debug and fix bugs across our integrations.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Provide support to other developers within the team.
• Ensure that you follow best coding practices, documentation, code reviews, unit and integration testing throughout all software developed.
• Be willing to work outside of the scope of Laravel integrations where required.
  
  

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.
• Passion for writing code that is clean, modular, well-commented, performant, fault tolerant, readable and reusable.
• Amenable to learning other systems and frameworks and contributing to the wider team’s efforts.
• Excellent communication skills in English with a proactive approach to communication.
  
  

Experience And Qualifications

• Strong PHP, SQL, and Javascript skills.
• 5+ years experience of Laravel, with at least 2 at a senior level.
• Experience developing custom packages, with a preference of framework agnostic packages.
• Experience with testing frameworks
• Version control systems experience such as Git
• Competency with the command line, and command line tools.
• Working experience with macOS or 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
• Work abroad scheme
• Company-sponsored lunches, dinners and social gatherings
• Fully stocked kitchen with drinks, snacks, fruit, breakfast cereal etc.