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 a 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—optimising maintenance, managing repairs, and making informed decisions instantly. Our platform creates 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 ready to contribute to our mission and drive innovation.

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 a senior backend engineer to join the engineering team. You’ll be working alongside a highly technical and motivated team, supported by a Product Manager and Engineering Manager. You will be expected to apply fundamental engineering and mathematical skills to solve problems and overcome challenges, not just develop code. The engineering team sits at the centre of everything we do 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 work primarily with Python and Django in an increasingly service‑oriented architecture. The tech stack also includes 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 speed of execution.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Debug and fix bugs across our applications.
• Review, maintain and refactor existing code to meet requirements for improved or new features.
• Write technical documentation of code, algorithms and APIs.
• Help in drafting 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 managing more junior team members.

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package.
• Flexible working environment.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Other

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting