At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build reliable services for seamless property information flow.
- Company: Join Awaze, a forward-thinking tech company revolutionising property data.
- Benefits: Enjoy generous holiday discounts and flexible hybrid working.
- Other info: Great opportunities for career growth and a collaborative engineering culture.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on property platforms while using cutting-edge technologies.
- Qualifications: Experience in backend development, APIs, and cloud platforms like AWS.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Software Engineer – Property Platform
At Awaze we're simplifying and modernizing the way property information flows across our business.
As part of our Property Platform team you'll help build the services that power our websites, apps and internal platforms, ensuring accurate, reliable and scalable property data is available wherever it's needed.
Your mission
As our new Software Engineer, your mission is to design, build and operate reliable services that enable property information to move seamlessly between systems.
You'll work across backend services, APIs, event-driven integrations and cloud infrastructure, while contributing to front-end solutions where required.
You'll collaborate closely with Product, Design and Engineering to deliver high-quality solutions that improve the experience for our guests, homeowners and internal teams.
- What You’ll Be Doing
- Build and maintain APIs, backend services and data transformation pipelines that power the Property platform.
- Contribute to front-end applications where required, working across the full stack.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers and designers to deliver high-quality, customer-focused solutions.
- Work with modern technologies including Type Script, AWS and Docker.
- Contribute to engineering practices such as CI/CD, testing, observability and continuous delivery.
- Monitor and improve the health, reliability and performance of production systems using tools such as New Relic.
- Participate in pair/mob programming, code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Take ownership of the systems you build, helping to shape technical solutions and improve the platform over time.
- Make effective use of AI‑assisted development tools (such as Git Hub Copilot, Codex or Claude) to improve productivity, code quality and learning while applying sound engineering judgement.
- Who We’re Looking For
You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy solving technical problems, building reliable systems and collaborating with others to deliver value.
- We're Looking For Someone Who Brings
- Commercial experience building backend applications and APIs.
- Experience developing backend applications using modern technologies such as Type Script (Node. js), with familiarity or an interest in languages including Python and Java.
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS.
- An understanding of distributed systems, event‑driven architectures or data integrations.
- Familiarity with SQL and/or No SQL databases.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern engineering practices.
- An understanding of testing, clean code and software craftsmanship.
- A collaborative, curious and proactive approach to learning and delivering value.
- Confidence using AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve quality and support problem solving.
- How You’ll Make An Impact
- Build reliable services that become the trusted source of property information across Awaze.
- Deliver scalable APIs and integrations that support both customer-facing and internal platforms.
- Improve the reliability, performance and observability of our systems.
- Help shape the evolution of our Property platform through collaboration, continuous improvement and modern engineering practices.
- Contribute to a strong engineering culture where ownership, learning and innovation are encouraged.
Benefits
- Generous discounts on holidays across our brands.
- Flexible hybrid working, with two days per week in our Manchester office and the autonomy to work how you work best.
- Real opportunities to grow, learn and shape your role as well as careers progression vertically or horizontally, cross countries and responsibilities.
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Software Engineer - Property Platform in Manchester employer: Awaze
Awaze is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration within Europe's largest holiday rentals business. Employees benefit from a strong focus on professional growth, with opportunities to influence strategic decisions and modernise finance through cutting-edge technology, all while enjoying the vibrant atmosphere of the travel industry.
