Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

Plentific is one of the fastest-growing property technology companies in the UK and Germany, with offices in the US and Turkey. Its mission is to improve lives by making property work better for everyone. The platform empowers landlords and property managers to manage their properties and internal trades workforce, source local trade talent, build community cohesion and provide better services than ever before. The end-to-end solution offers a flexible approach to compliance management, repairs reporting and delivery, ensuring landlords and property managers can be confident that their property meets necessary standards.

Since 2013, Plentific has:

• Dramatically improved outcomes by speeding up service delivery fivefold and creating economic opportunities within local communities.
• Set a new industry benchmark on responsive repairs by reducing typical time frames (20 days) to less than 4 days.
• Entered partnerships with social enterprises to help people into trades jobs, and thus rebuild their lives.

Plentific has been recognised by multiple awarding bodies since its inception, including:

• ‘Deal of the Year - Residential’ at the UK PropTech Awards 2018.
• ‘Business Change/Transformation’ Award at the UK Business Awards 2019.
• Recognised as ‘Professional Services Partner’ at the UK Housing Awards 2019.
• Repairs and Maintenance Provider of the Year at the 24Housing Awards 2019.
• Featured on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list 2020.
• Most Collaborative Business Award - PropTech at the UK Proptech Awards 2020.

Following a major funding round, Plentific has recently expanded into the US multi-family market and has plans to enter the wider professional and commercial real estate sector in Europe this year.

In sum, Plentific is a technology-led business developing cutting-edge solutions - and that’s only possible to do with a great team. Our culture is open, empowering and fast-paced. If you’re tenacious, passionate and driven, you will fit right in.

plentific.com/careers

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience in Data Engineering to join our growing business. You’ll be working alongside highly technical and motivated teams and report to the Data Engineering Tech Lead. You would be expected to contribute to the growth of the data-related software offerings within the organisation. Working with a variety of internal teams, you’ll have the freedom to analyse all aspects of our business in order to help various teams ensure we support our ever-growing user base. For people with the right mindset, this frame of mind provides an intellectually stimulating environment.

Responsibilities

• Code mainly in SQL (for Snowflake), Python, LookML and JavaScript. However, we are constantly evolving and you should be ready to embrace new challenges
• Identify the data needs of the business, understand the requirements for analysis, and build scalable, efficient data pipelines to enable data-driven decisions
• Own and develop data pipelines and models for the teams across the business
• Enable the product teams to utilise statistical and econometric models on large datasets
• Take ownership of collecting new data and refine our existing data sets
• Work on cutting edge data-related software engineering areas like embedded analytics or machine learning
• Build strong relationships with our product and engineering teams to manage our data universally across the business
• Adopt best practices for reporting and analysis, and insist upon the highest standards at all times

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience delivering software for analytical data solutions with big business impact
• Very good command of SQL. Experience with LookML, or with ORMs like Django is a plus
• Strong knowledge of Python, JavaScript or other high level programming languages and a desire to learn new ones
• Experience developing cloud-based software solutions
• Experience orchestrating continuous integration setups (e.g. with Jenkins), working with version control (e.g. Git), and Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum)
• Comfortable developing and mentoring junior members of the team towards a successful career
• Previous experience of building ETL/ELT pipelines
• Skilled in data lake and data warehouse design, maintenance and governance
• Experienced on data normalization/denormalization
• Previous experience with Looker and Snowflake is a plus
• You are an organized person who works well under pressure and with little direction
• Ability to communicate the value of using data to form decisions and predictive modelling
• Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate concepts in plain English
• BSc or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, computational physics, mathematics or another field with strong computational curriculum. MSc/PhD in similar subjects desirable

Benefits

As you can see, we have big plans and are eager to grow our team of dreamers and doers to achieve our vision of managing As you can see, we have big plans and are eager to grow our team of dreamers and doers to achieve our vision of managing over 1 million properties through our platform across various countries. You can help us shape the future of property management. Here’s what we offer:

• 26 days annual leave per calendar year plus all bank holidays
• Flexible work from home policy
• Home office allowance
• €250 learning and development fund
• €1,500 introducer bonus, if someone you introduce joins the company (plus we will donate €200 to the charity of your choice)
• Regular company-sponsored lunches, dinners and social gatherings