Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Story Terrace Inc.; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Greater London is seeking an experienced backend engineer. Responsibilities include designing APIs, writing clean code, and managing databases. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience, strong skills in Python and SQL, and excellent communication skills. This role offers a competitive salary, flexible work arrangements, and generous benefits including private healthcare, annual leave, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

25 days annual holiday

Flexible working environment

Private health care

Life insurance

Learning management system

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend development.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Experience in writing technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs and microservices.
• Write testable and readable code.
• Participate in code reviews and maintain existing code.

Skills

Python

Django

SQL

Software design patterns

Debugging

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Job description

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

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 include 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

• A competitive compensation package
• 25 days annual holiday + 1 additional day for every year served up to 5 years.
• 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.