Engineering Summer Placement (6-8 weeks)

🌍 Location - London or Sheffield (hybrid, 2-3 days a week at the office, the remaining days at home!)

INTRODUCTION

One in five people in the UK rent their homes.

Goodlord’s mission? To provide them with the best renting experience in the world.

Goodlord digitalises the renting process for agents, landlords, and tenants. The platform streamlines everything from referencing right through to rent collection, making the process easier and more transparent for everyone.

We are looking for talented and motivated summer interns to help us improve this experience while gaining practical experience in a fast-paced, agile environment.

About the tech stack

To process tenancies, estate agents use a web application built with React and TypeScript, with a backend built in PHP. This communicates with a number of third parties via different APIs and other internal services, via an Event driven architecture.

Referencing is built in its own services, where the communication between client and server is done via GraphQL and the backend is built in C#.

All of this infrastructure is deployed using Terraform and Docker into Kubernetes clusters in AWS and Azure.

Regardless of your area of focus, there will be opportunities for you to learn and work on other parts of the system.

How do we work?

The engineering team consists of a number of squads working independently in different parts of the application but still supporting each other as a wider team. Each squad comprises a product manager, designer and a mix of frontend and backend engineers.

ABOUT THE ROLE

“Since moving to the Tech team I have been constantly pushed and challenged to improve my ability and progress my career. From 1:1 mentoring with various more senior engineers, to personal development topics aimed at specific areas of my progression.”

- Chelsea Hilditch, Junior software engineer

Your day to day you will be…

• Implementing well scoped tasks and pairing with senior engineers
• Learning development best practices while working in a team environment
• Working on individual projects to demonstrate your skills and knowledge
• Participating in agile ceremonies such a, stand-ups, sizing and retrospectives
• Contributing to team meetings and helping propose solutions to problems
• Attending regular 1:1 coaching sessions to help you grow further

We need you to be…

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience writing code in one or more programming languages
• Familiarity with relational and/or no-SQL databases
• Open to learning new languages, technologies, and ways of working
• Passionate about software engineering and a desire to learn new technologies and techniques
• To be biased towards collaboration

Do you think you might be the right person?

Check out what an ideal engineer would be in Goodlord in this article:

https://blog.goodlord.co/careers/are-you-goodlords-ideal-engineer

ABOUT US

We started Goodlord because we wanted to make renting simple and transparent for everyone involved: the agent, landlord and tenant. We knew Generation Rent would lead to more tenants, with higher digital expectations and we were confident we could provide a solution.

And we did. Like all startups it’s been a bit of a roller coaster journey, but we’re now stronger than ever, with around 3000 letting agents using the platform, exciting and varied products and 320 Goodlordians supporting the mission!

Our purpose - 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:

• 10th Great Place to Work in the UK large-sized businesses 2022
• 23rd Wellbeing Great Place to Work in UK Large- sized businesses 2022
• 18th best workplace for Women in UK large-sized businesses 2022
• 13th best workplaces for Tech in UK large-sized businesses 2022
• Excellence in wellbeing for our dedication to goodlordian’s wellbeing
• Verified by Flexa as a Flexified employer - Top 100 for 2022

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.