Iplace Global
Software Engineer (Junior or Mid-Level)

ABOUT USiPlace 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 remortgagersSurveyors 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+ firmsMoving 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 UKWe'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.THE ROLEWe'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.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.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.Salary: £28,000 – £36,000 (junior) or £40,000 – £50,000 (mid-level).WHAT YOU'LL DOBuild and iterate on multi-step web forms, quote-comparison interfaces, payment pages, and landing pages across our product portfolioMaintain and extend our WordPress sites — editing themes, updating custom plugins, and deploying changes safelyIntegrate and maintain third-party APIs — address lookup, lender data, Google Maps, Stripe payments, Trustpilot/Google reviews, HubSpot, email delivery (SendGrid), and moreWrite and maintain serverless Cloudflare Workers and Pages Functions (TypeScript and vanilla JS) that proxy and protect backend servicesDeploy and manage applications on DigitalOcean (App Platform and Droplets) and Cloudflare, including basic Nginx and PM2 configurationRun and evaluate A/B experiments: ship a variant, read the numbers, decide what sticksKeep front-ends snappy and accessible — performance budgets, caching headers, and Core Web Vitals matter hereWork through a GitHub pull-request workflow with CI/CD: feature branch → automated checks → PR review → preview deploy → merge to main → liveUse AI-assisted engineering tools (Claude Code) as a first-class part of your daily workflow — writing, reviewing, and debugging code with agentic assistanceInvestigate and fix bugs reported by the team or flagged by monitoring toolsWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FORRequired for both rolesSolid understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — you can build a form from scratch without a frameworkComfort 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 EnglishAdditionally required for the mid-level role2–4 years of commercial web development experienceAbility to take a feature from brief to production with minimal guidanceConfident working across both frontend and backend in the same weekExperience debugging across the full request lifecycle (browser → CDN → serverless function → external API)Nice to have — FrontendWordPress theme or plugin development (PHP templating, WP hooks, the WP admin)Any exposure to React, Next.js, Svelte, or SvelteKitTypeScript basicsTailwind CSS or CSS custom propertiesHubSpot CMS — HubDB, custom modules, or HubL templatesNice to have — Backend & infrastructurePHP — Laravel or any MVC frameworkNode.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 platformBasic Linux server administration — SSH, environment variables, PM2, Nginx configDocker basics (docker-compose for local development)AWS (S3 or any cloud storage)DigitalOcean App Platform or DropletsNice to have — Integrations & toolingStripe 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 behaviourExperience 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 hereWHAT WE OFFERSalary: £28,000 – £36,000 (junior) or £40,000 – £50,000 (mid-level)Full-time in our London office, Monday to FridaySmall team: direct access to decision-makers, no bureaucracyReal ownership — you'll see your work live on the same day in most casesExposure 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 fastClear path to grow as the team expandsHOW TO APPLYIn your application, please include:1. A brief note on your background and why this role interests you2. A link to any code you've written — a GitHub profile, a project, a CodePen, anything that shows how you think3. Your current or expected salaryWe review applications on a rolling basis and aim to respond within five business days.Pay: £28,000.00-£50,000.00 per yearAbility to commute/relocate:London W1T: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)Work Location: In person