Engineering Lead, Python

Randstad (Schweiz) AG; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Plentific is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join a dynamic team in London, focused on tackling significant challenges in property management technology. The role demands strong leadership, problem-solving abilities, and a passion for clean coding practices. Candidates should expect a competitive salary and a range of benefits designed to support their well-being and professional development.

Benefits

25 days annual holiday

Flexible working environment

Private health care

Life insurance (4x salary)

Employee assistance program

Learning management system powered by Udemy

Referral bonus

Fully stocked kitchen

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience, particularly with Python and Django.
• Experience leading technical teams and managing junior members.
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Write technical documents identifying software project requirements.
• Design, build and maintain APIs and microservices.
• Participate in code reviews and maintain code quality.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-Solving

Clean Code

Communication

Tools

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

AWS

Docker

Job description

About Us

Plentific is on a mission to make property work better for everyone. Founded in 2013, we provide a powerful, award-winning cloud-based platform that brings together landlords, property managers, service providers, and residents to manage homes more intelligently.

Our product motto, "Exceptional Experiences, Managed by Exception," reflects our commitment to intelligent workflow automation. By surfacing only what needs attention, our platform allows property teams to focus on what truly matters—delivering outstanding service and outcomes at scale.

With tools for work order management, compliance, inspections, and field service coordination, we help our partners streamline operations, deliver essential services faster, and make data-driven decisions with confidence. Today, millions of homes are managed through Plentific—and we're just getting started.

We're a team of curious minds and problem solvers, united by a passion for building technology that has real-world impact. Headquartered in London and backed by world-class investors like Highland Europe, Brookfield, Mubadala, and Target Global, we're growing fast and expanding globally.

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

We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer to join the engineering team. You’ll be working alongside highly technical and motivated teams and supported by a Product Managers and an Engineering Manager. You would be expected to apply fundamental engineering and mathematical skills to solve problems and overcome challenges, not just develop code. You would leverage your architectural and design skills to guide our systems growth.

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 include Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, AWS, React.js, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Celery, Pandas, Numpy, Git, Jenkins. 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
• Design, build and maintain APIs, microservices and data pipelines
• Write well-formulated, testable and readable code using appropriate software design patterns
• 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

• 8+ years experience (Python/Django is a plus)
• Ability to work UK working hours (+/- 3 hours)
• Experience in writing technical documentation.
• Experience in leading technical teams.
• Experience in designing and developing large-scale systems.
• Experience in managing more junior team members.
• 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

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.