Senior Backend Engineer (Python) - Italy, Remote

Senior Backend Engineer (Python) - Italy, Remote

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,” empowering property professionals via a cloud‑based platform.

We harness cutting‑edge technology and data‑driven insights to streamline operations for landlords, letting agents, and property managers—optimising maintenance, managing repairs, and enabling instant, informed decision‑making. Our platform creates seamless, real‑time workflows that transform traditional property management into a dynamic digital experience.

Backed by investors such as Noa, Highland Europe, Brookfields, Mubadala, RXR Digital Ventures, and Target Global, Plentific is at the forefront of the proptech revolution. Headquartered in London, we maintain a global outlook while expanding our reach and impact.

The Role

This is a fully remote position. We currently have a number of remote engineers based in the UK, Germany, Turkey, Poland, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. We’re looking for an experienced (or senior) backend engineer to join our engineering team. You’ll work alongside a highly technical, motivated crew with support from a Product Manager and Engineering Manager.

The engineering team tackles challenging problems—online payments, quoting, invoicing, booking, search/scoring algorithms, ETL, data pipelines, in‑app messaging, real‑time notifications, and fraud prevention. Backend engineers primarily use Python and Django within an increasingly service‑oriented architecture, along with Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, AWS, React.js, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Celery, Pandas, Numpy, Git, Jenkins, and Elasticsearch.

Responsibilities

• Work with product owners, engineering managers, UI 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 retrieve data from the database.
• Optimise APIs and database queries to improve execution speed.
• 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 draft end‑user manuals.

Experience & Qualifications

• 5+ years of 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.
• Can‑do attitude, able to think out of the box to get things done efficiently.
• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical concepts in plain English.
• Experience in writing technical documentation.
• Experience managing junior team members.

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package.
• Flexible working environment.