Backend Engineer — AI-Driven PropTech (Hybrid Remote)

Homesearch; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

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Hybrid work

MacBook provided

London office visits

Gym/yoga onsite

Job summary

Homesearch, a leading UK PropTech platform, is seeking an experienced backend engineer to work across HAILO, Homesearch Pro and app integrations. You’ll be hands-on in the code every day, shaping what gets built and how it ships to customers who rely on it. This role is open to those at mid or senior levels.

You’ll build APIs in Laravel, optimise queries, and collaborate with product and design. The team is small, values-driven, with hybrid working: most work remotely from the UK, with time in

Qualifications

• Strong PHP and Laravel experience with SQL and indexing.
• REST/JSON API development experience.
• AWS experience with container services.
• CI/CD workflows on Bitbucket or GitHub.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend APIs and backend services in Laravel.
• Work across HAILO, Homesearch Pro and app integrations.
• Improve processing and serving of property data as products scale.
• Maintain security, performance and code quality via reviews.
• Shape code structure and shipping via CI/CD pipelines.
• Explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product and lead discussions before specs are settled.
• Use AI coding tools to speed up development.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

API development

SQL indexing

Code review

AI coding tools

Communication

Ambiguity management

Tools

Laravel

MySQL

Redis

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

Bitbucket

GitHub

Job description

Homesearch, a leading UK PropTech platform, is seeking an experienced backend engineer to work across HAILO, Homesearch Pro and app integrations. You’ll be hands-on in the code every day, shaping what gets built and how it ships to customers who rely on it. This role is open to those at mid or senior levels.

You’ll build APIs in Laravel, optimise queries, and collaborate with product and design. The team is small, values-driven, with hybrid working: most work remotely from the UK, with time in