Technical Lead

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 As Technical Lead, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality experiences for our Portal product and clients. You'll be tasked to lead the development team, improve our processes, roadmaps and implementations. This role requires you to collaborate closely with the Delivery team. Responsibilities Product Development & Scoping Collaborate on defining and refining product requirements for the Resident Experience products Scope and design functionality for client implementations and Resident Experience products to align with business objectives Technical Leadership & Oversight Provide technical oversight across projects, ensuring adherence to best practices and architectural standards Offer pre-sales technical guidance and expertise to support client proposals and solution design Quality Assurance & Release Management Lead QA processes for the Active Portal product, maintaining high standards of product reliability and performance Own the release management process, including coordination, documentation and publication of release notes Code Quality & Development Standards Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability and readiness for deployment Define and uphold coding standards, testing strategies and documentation best practices Continuous Improvement & Innovation Identify, prioritise and manage technical debt to ensure long-term scalability and efficiency Evaluate and implement new tools, frameworks and technologies to enhance team productivity and system performance Technical Requirements 8+ years Laravel experience Experience with modern PHP tooling and best practices, including static analysis using PHPStan. Experience with writing tests, particularly unit and integration tests, Wepreferably in PHPUnit. 5+ years experience working with mysql Strong experience creating composer packages, preferably working with packagist and/or satis 5+ years experience working with nginx Experience with Docker Experience with the *Nix command line Experience with CI/CD, preferably with Bitbucket Pipelines or similar 5+ years Drupal experience using modern practices in Drupal 8+5+ years experience working with AWS across services such as RDS, S3, EC2, ALB, Route53 and SES 5+ years experience with Ansible for deployment and provisioning Experience with Vagrant for local development environments Experience working with and designing APIs Benefits As you can see, we are quickly progressing with our ambitious plans and are eager to grow our team of doers to achieve our vision of managing over 2 million properties through our platform across various countries. You can help us shape the future of property management across the globe. Here's what we offer: A competitive compensation package 25 days annual holiday 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.