Software Engineer (Junior or Mid-Level)

We're hiring two Software Engineers - one junior and one mid-level - to join us full-time in our London office. Both roles are responsible for maintaining and continually improving the web products that power our eight comparison brands: quote funnels, results pages, payment flows, WordPress content sites, a Laravel partner portal, and the serverless workers and APIs that tie everything together., * Build and iterate on multi-step web forms, quote-comparison interfaces, payment pages, and landing pages across our product portfolio

• Maintain and extend our WordPress sites - editing themes, updating custom plugins, and deploying changes safely
• Integrate and maintain third-party APIs - address lookup, lender data, Google Maps, Stripe payments, Trustpilot/Google reviews, HubSpot, email delivery (SendGrid), and more
• Write and maintain serverless Cloudflare Workers and Pages Functions (TypeScript and vanilla JS) that proxy and protect backend services
• Deploy and manage applications on DigitalOcean (App Platform and Droplets) and Cloudflare, including basic Nginx and PM2 configuration
• Run and evaluate A/B experiments: ship a variant, read the numbers, decide what sticks
• Keep front-ends snappy and accessible - performance budgets, caching headers, and Core Web Vitals matter here
• Work through a GitHub pull-request workflow with CI/CD: feature branch * automated checks * PR review * preview deploy * merge to main * live
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools (Claude Code) as a first-class part of your daily workflow - writing, reviewing, and debugging code with agentic assistance
• Investigate and fix bugs reported by the team or flagged by monitoring tools, Nice to have - Frontend
• WordPress theme or plugin development (PHP templating, WP hooks, the WP admin)
• Any exposure to React, Next.js, Svelte, or SvelteKit
• TypeScript basics
• Tailwind CSS or CSS custom properties
• HubSpot CMS - HubDB, custom modules, or HubL templates

Nice to have - Backend & infrastructure

• PHP - Laravel or any MVC framework
• Node.js server-side development (HTTP module, Express, Fastify, Hono, or similar)
• SQL databases - MySQL or PostgreSQL (writing queries, understanding migrations)
• Cloudflare Workers / Pages, Cloudflare D1, or any serverless platform
• Basic Linux server administration - SSH, environment variables, PM2, Nginx config
• Docker basics (docker-compose for local development)
• AWS (S3 or any cloud storage)
• DigitalOcean App Platform or Droplets

Nice to have - Integrations & tooling

• Stripe or any payment API Email delivery APIs (SendGrid or similar)
• REST API consumption (fetch, error handling, reading API docs)
• Basic knowledge of caching, HTTP headers, or CDN behaviour
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, automated preview deploys, or similar)
• Monorepo tooling (Turborepo, pnpm workspaces)
• Comfort using AI coding tools - we use Claude Code as an integrated part of our engineering workflow; candidates who have used agentic tools to accelerate development are well-placed here

Do you have experience in WordPress?, The junior role suits someone with a solid grasp of HTML/CSS/JS who is ready to grow into a broad stack with guidance. The mid-level role suits someone with 2-4 years of commercial experience who can work independently across the stack and take ownership of features end to end. Apply for whichever fits - we'll discuss level at the screening stage., Required for both roles

• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - you can build a form from scratch without a framework
• Comfort reading and writing vanilla JS (we have codebases with no build step; you should be able to debug in a browser's DevTools without a source map)
• Some experience with Git and GitHub (branches, pull requests, resolving merge conflicts)
• Ability to work and communicate in English
• Additionally required for the mid-level role
• 2-4 years of commercial web development experience
• Ability to take a feature from brief to production with minimal guidance
• Confident working across both frontend and backend in the same week
• Experience debugging across the full request lifecycle (browser * CDN * serverless function * external API), 2. A link to any code you've written - a GitHub profile, a project, a CodePen, anything that shows how you think

Salary: £28,000 - £36,000 (junior) or £40,000 - £50,000 (mid-level)., * Salary: £28,000 - £36,000 (junior) or £40,000 - £50,000 (mid-level)

• Full-time in our London office, Monday to Friday
• Small team: direct access to decision-makers, no bureaucracy
• Real ownership - you'll see your work live on the same day in most cases
• Exposure to a genuinely broad stack across eight live brands (vanilla JS, Next.js, Svelte, Laravel/PHP, WordPress, Node.js, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Stripe, Supabase) - your skills will broaden fast
• Clear path to grow as the team expands

iPlace Global builds and operates a network of quote comparison platforms for the UK home-moving market. When someone buys, sells, or moves home in the UK, they typically need a conveyancing solicitor, a property surveyor, and a removal firm - and they need to find and compare quotes for all three. Our brands cover every step of that journey: * Conveyancing Prices, Conveyancing Index, and Compare Conveyancing Quotes Online - instant quotes from regulated conveyancing solicitors for buyers, sellers, and remortgagers * Surveyors Compared and Building Survey Quotes - RICS-regulated surveying quotes (HomeBuyer Reports, Building Surveys) * Removals Index and Removals Quoter - removal company quotes from a vetted network of 500+ firms * Moving Compared - a single destination covering all three services in one Pinlocal - the B2B platform that powers the supply side, distributing qualified leads from our comparison sites to conveyancers, surveyors, and removal firms across the UK * We're a small, fast-moving team. You'll work directly with the people who make product decisions and see your changes live in front of real users the same day you ship them., This is a broad, hands-on role. Because each brand has its own history and deployment, our stack is deliberately varied: no-build vanilla-JS Cloudflare Pages sites, a Next.js / TypeScript / Tailwind app, a Svelte/SvelteKit portal monorepo, WordPress sites with custom themes and plugins, and a Laravel/PHP partner portal.