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📍 Location: London (E1) nearest stations are Aldgate East, Liverpool Street and Whitechapel
🖥 Hybrid working as standard: 2 days a week in the office, the other 3 days from home/office (whatever you prefer!)
Who we are
We’re a fast-growing PropTech scale-up on a mission to make renting simple and transparent for everyone involved—agents, landlords, and tenants. Our cloud-based platform digitises the entire rental process, cutting out paperwork and inefficiencies.
With 3,000+ letting agents using our platform and a team of 350+ Goodlordians, we’re shaking up the industry and redefining the renting experience. 🚀
The Role
As a Senior PHP Engineer, you’ll work in a small, self-organising squad, collaborating with product managers, business stakeholders, and fellow engineers to design and build scalable, efficient, and reliable solutions.
Visit our careers in tech to find out more about the team and the way we work!
What you’ll be doing
Tech Stack
We use modern technologies to build scalable solutions:
🔹 PHP 8 with Symfony (5.4/7.*) or Laravel
🔹 AWS-hosted Kubernetes cluster with Docker containers
🔹 MySQL (AWS Aurora) for data persistence
🔹 AWS Lambda & API Gateway for supplementary services
🔹 React (TypeScript) & jQuery for UI, with a focus on migrating to React
🔹 GitHub Actions for CI/CD, testing, and deployment
What we’re looking for
🔹 Significant experience building web applications with Symfony or Laravel
🔹 Strong ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
🔹 Proficiency with relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL
🔹 Experience working in Agile teams with a delivery-focused mindset
🔹 Passion for solving real-world problems and improving customer experience
Our Purpose
Our mission - building the best rental experience in the world - is clear to everyone, and so too is the fact that people are central to achieving that mission; we have worked hard to make Goodlord great so we’re proud to have been ranked 10th in the UK's Best Workplaces™ 2022 - Large category.
Not only that but the following too:-
Our values guide our decisions, the way we work, our culture and the people we ask to join the team. We work hard, have fun and support each other. We’re not afraid to make mistakes (we’d never learn if we didn’t) and we’re always looking to challenge ourselves. Our style is collaboration based on honesty, friendship and respect.
It’s an exciting time here at Goodlord. If you’re inspired by what we’re doing, are up for a challenge and share our values, we’d love to hear from you.
Why join us?
Aside from the role, the people, our culture and our mission, we have some other things that make Goodlord a pretty awesome place to be. Here’s a few favourites amongst Goodlordians (check out our careers page for more info).
What’s next?
If you’re excited about building scalable tech and making renting better for millions, click apply – it only takes 2-3 minutes!
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.