Every year, hundreds of thousands of homeowners could move but don’t, and homes that could sell never reach the market. The property market is slower and more closed than it should be. Homesearch is building the intelligence layer that gets it moving, connecting people, homes and agents through data and AI. Our vision is a fully connected, faster, more open property market.

We’re one of the UK’s leading PropTech platforms for estate agents, helping them win more listings, understand their local market, and turn existing contacts into new instructions. More than 1,500 agents subscribe, from independents to names like Knight Frank, Hamptons and KFH, and we’re a trusted partner to Reapit, Dezrez, Rex, MRI and other leading CRMs. Our products, including HAILO and ReContact, are picking up real momentum and fast becoming tools agents know and trust. We’re a team of around 40, backed by Octopus Ventures.

💼 About the Role

This is some of the most important work in the business. Thousands of estate agents use our products every day, demand for what we build keeps growing, and the backend is what makes all of it work. You’ll be right at the heart of it.

You won’t be boxed into one product. You’ll work across HAILO, our AI listings optimiser, Homesearch Pro, our prospecting product, and our app integrations. The work is varied, the problems are real, and what you ship goes live to customers who rely on it.

You’ll have a real say in what gets built. We’re a small team where good ideas get picked up fast, and you’ll be in the room when product decisions are made, not handed a spec after the fact. If you like shaping what gets built as much as building it, this is that role.

We’re open on level, mid or senior. It’s hands-on: you’ll be in the code every day.

🔥 What You’ll Do

• Work across HAILO, Homesearch Pro and our app integrations, picking up the problems that matter most at the time.
• Build and extend APIs and backend services in our Laravel codebase.
• Find new ways to process and serve property data as our products and customers grow.
• Set a high bar on security, performance and code quality, and help others meet it through code review.
• Help shape how we structure and ship code, from CI/CD on Bitbucket and GitHub to shared packages used across the platform.
• Explain technical trade-offs to product and leadership in plain language, so good decisions get made early.
• Work closely with product, and get involved before a spec is fully settled.
• Use AI tools (we use Claude, GitHub Copilot and Codex) where they genuinely speed up the work.

😊 About You

• Strong PHP and Laravel experience, with solid SQL, MySQL preferred, and a real understanding of optimisation and indexing.
• REST/JSON API development experience, and comfortable working with Redis alongside MySQL.
• AWS experience, particularly API Gateway, ECS and containers, plus Docker and Docker Compose.
• Confident within CI/CD workflows on Bitbucket or GitHub.
• What matters more than years of experience is breadth: you’ve worked across genuinely different kinds of systems, maybe GIS, big data or indexing and data architecture, e-commerce customer flows and payments, and that range shows in how you approach problems.
• You use AI coding tools (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Codex or similar) actively as part of how you work. Neither resisting them nor relying on them blindly, you stay accountable for what you ship.
• Collaborative and genuinely receptive to code review, and comfortable with ambiguity, especially in product conversations before a spec is fully settled.
• You can explain a technical constraint to a non-technical stakeholder without losing them.
• We welcome career paths that don’t run in a straight line. Some of our strongest people came from unrelated fields, and that adaptability is exactly what we’re looking for.

Extra points for:

• Comfortable with Vue (V2/V3) and vanilla HTML/CSS for the occasional frontend-adjacent piece of work.
• Terraform or infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Agile/Scrum ways of working.

✨ How We Work

Our values run through everything we do. Remove Friction: make everything seamless. Stay Curious: ask, learn, improve. Own It: take the lead, own the result. Raise the Bar: think big, deliver value. We’re high performers who care about the mission and each other. High standards, open communication, and no room for ego or politics.

⛳️ Perks

• Competitive salary, plus share options, so you share in the upside you create.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• A MacBook to work on.
• An office with a free on-site gym, free yoga and gym classes, sauna and regular events.
• Hybrid working: mostly remote, with time in our London Victoria officeonce a week while you get to know the products and team, then around 2 to 4 days a month once settled.
• Real impact at a fast-growing PropTech at a real turning point.

The Full Stack Engineer contributes to the design and delivery of products within a squad, helping to build secure, reliable, and accessible software while maintaining high engineering standards and a good developer experience.

You will use your skills in Spring Boot microservices (Kotlin/Java) and modern web technologies (React/TypeScript) to deliver features across the stack. Our backend services run as containerised applications on Azure Container Apps, and our web applications are deployed via Azure Static Web Apps; you will help ensure the services and applications you work on are production-ready and make effective use of these platforms.

You will contribute to good engineering practices in observability, CI/CD, security, performance, and accessibility, helping systems meet the standards expected of a UK bank. You will contribute to Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and follow organisation-wide patterns and standards.

You are hands-on and collaborative: you help design features, write code, review changes, and work closely with engineers, Product, and Design to deliver valuable outcomes. You use approved GenAItools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex or Claude Code responsibly to improve productivity and quality, while validating outputs carefully.

Success in this role is measured by the consistent delivery of high-quality features, contribution to reliable and maintainable systems, improvements to the codebase and operational health of services, and your growth in technical capability and ownership.

Principal Accountabilities:

Contribute to the end-to-end design and delivery of features across the full stack using:

• Backend: Kotlin/Java Spring Boot microservices, containerised and deployed on Azure Container
• Apps, exposing REST/OpenAPI APIs and integrating with other services and data stores.
• Frontend: React/TypeScript, shared design system components, and agreed architectural patterns, deployed on Azure Static Web Apps.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and help produce clear ADRs for significant decisions, documenting context, options, trade-offs, and outcomes in line with organisation standards.
• Support the squad’s services in production by contributing to SLOs and operational metrics, monitoring systems, responding to incidents, and helping to reduce recurring issues and improve reliability.

Apply secure and compliant engineering practices:

• Follow secure coding standards and contribute to threat modelling activities.
• Ensure logging, audit trails, and data handling meet regulatory and privacy requirements.
• Ensure accessibility standards are met in user-facing features.
• Help strengthen observability and operational excellence within the squad by contributing to metrics, tracing, logs, dashboards, runbooks, and alerts, and using them effectively in day-to-day engineering work.
• Contribute to improvements in developer experience, including CI/CD pipelines, test strategy, local development workflows, and release practices, in line with wider engineering standards and cloud deployment patterns.

Use AI-assisted engineering responsibly:

• Use approved tools like GitHub Copilot, Codex or Claude Code to improve speed, quality, and consistency.
• Validate and refine AI-generated code to ensure correctness, maintainability, and compliance.
• Share feedback and effective practices with the team.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers to understand requirements, shape practical solutions, and deliver work aligned to product goals and timelines.
• Maintain high standards of code quality, testing, documentation, and maintainability across the squad’s codebase, while helping to reduce technical debt.
• Support other engineers through pairing, code review, and knowledge sharing, contributing positively to the growth and effectiveness of the squad.

Personal Attributes & Experience

• Experience building and operating Spring Boot microservices in Kotlin or Java, including REST APIs, integrations, and containerised deployments on a major cloud platform (Azure preferred; AWS or Google Cloud also relevant).
• Good knowledge of React and TypeScript, with practical experience building accessible, maintainable, and performant user interfaces.
• Ability to design and deliver well-structured features within an existing architecture, with an understanding of trade-offs around scalability, maintainability, and delivery pace.
• Good understanding of distributed systems fundamentals appropriate to microservices, such as resilience, latency, and failure handling.
• Good understanding of secure coding practices, privacy considerations, and security expectations for production systems.
• Experience with testing, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling; familiarity with Azure DevOps Pipelines and Azure deployment services is beneficial.
• Ability to improve code quality through refactoring, clearer abstractions, and maintaining sensible boundaries between modules and services.
• Experience collaborating through code review, pairing, and technical discussions to help improve team outcomes.
• Experience using GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex or Claude Code to improve productivity and code quality, with a clear understanding of their limitations and the need for review and validation.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, Product Design & other stakeholders.

Working at Allica Bank

At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:

• Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
• Options for flexible working
• Regular social activities
• Pension contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Private health cover
• Life assurance
• Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave