Senior Engineer (Full Stack)

📍 Location: London E1

🖥 Hybrid working as standard: 2 days a week in the office, the other 3 days from home/office (whatever you prefer!)

About the team that drives our platform

We're a PropTech scale-up who have created a revolutionary, cloud-based software platform to bring together agents, landlords and tenants online and process all the paperwork electronically.

Our small, self-organising squads build the platforms and tools to help us achieve our mission. We're disrupting an industry, so there's plenty of thorny, real-world problems to solve on behalf of the agents, landlords and tenants that use our system.

If you want to develop new skills, there'll be plenty of opportunities: many of our current team joined as back-end or front-end developers, and are now working across the full stack.

We are keen advocates of agile delivery; we work closely with our stakeholders and use Kanban to iterate quickly on customer feedback. You'll be learning every day, from the team around you and senior members of the team who you'll have daily exposure to.

Visit our careers in tech to find out more about the team and the way we work!

The Tech we use

Our platform is built with multiple PHP 8 applications running on Symfony (5.4/7.*), all deployed within Docker containers on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS. Data is persisted in a MYSQL (AWS Aurora) database. Additionally, we leverage AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway for running supplementary services.

Our UI is a mixture of jQuery and React (using Typescript) and we’re actively pushing to have everything in React.

We use Github for version control and Github Actions for building, testing and deploying code to the staging and production environments.

Our mission:

• Two in five people in the UK rent their homes. Our mission? To provide them with the best renting experience in the world 🌎
• We started Goodlord because we wanted to make renting simple and transparent for everyone involved: the agent, the landlord, and the tenant. We knew Generation Rent would lead to more tenants, with higher digital expectations and we were confident we could provide a solution 🏠
• Like all scale-ups it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster journey, but we’re now stronger than ever, with around 3,000 letting agents using the platform, exciting and varied products and 350+ Goodlordians across the group supporting the mission! 💚

The Opportunity:

• Work with Product Managers, business stakeholders and other Engineers to understand end user problems and implement appropriate solutions
• Address issues raised within the application that prevent users from achieving their goals
• Identify bottlenecks in the development process and suggest/implement improvements
• Continuously improve the code base to make it easier to understand and more fun to work with
• Perform self defined tasks geared towards your personal and professional development

What we need from you:

• Strong experience developing complex web applications across the full stack — from databases (e.g. MySQL) and APIs to front-end UIs. We use PHP and Symfony on the server side and React and TypeScript on the client side
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, with a focus on quality and long-term maintainability. We use Cypress, Behat and PHPUnit for automated testing
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including engineers, product managers, and designers
• Take initiative, demonstrate ownership from ideation to deployment, and consistently align your work with broader business objectives.
• Experience of working in an agile delivery environment (e.g. Kanban) with rapid iteration cycles
• You’ve participated in technical hiring, interviews, or talent development efforts
• Proactive in mentoring, sharing knowledge, and contributing to team growth and development

What's in it for you:

• 🚀 Grow with Goodlord: your development is important to us. Have a goal in mind? Share it with us and you can use your £1000 annual development fund to support it. We guarantee you’ll learn loads and develop both personally and professionally at Goodlord too!
• 💕 Your well-being matters: bi-weekly coaching with Sanctus to provide Goodlordians with a safe place to talk and support your mental health
• 🌴 25 days holiday (plus UK Bank holidays) plus 1 day per full holiday year up to 32 days: We believe regular breaks are essential for well-being and we encourage (some may say expect!) all Goodlordians to take full advantage of their annual leave entitlement
• 🤗 Supporting your family: we offer Goodlordians of all genders a generous 3 months of fully-paid time off to look after their new arrivals
• 🤩 Our team: we’re an energetic, sociable, and talented bunch who are super passionate about what we do and determined to make a difference. We’re all in it together, we learn from each other, we’re genuine and we don’t have time for politics

What's next?

If you’re ready to help us provide the best renting experience in the world, then click apply (2-3 mins!)

Full Job Spec available.

Goodlord wants applicants from all backgrounds and walks of life, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment. In fact one of our core values is Bring our whole selves to work which is really important to us. If there is anything you need to participate fully in the interview process we'd like to hear about that too, please just include it in your application. Come and join us!

** Please note, as we are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, all Goodlordians are required to pass a thorough referencing check via Experian before joining the team. We will only ask for references at the point of making an offer.

Regrettably we are not able to provide sponsorship for this role.

No agencies please - we have tried and trusted partners we would turn to should we require support.