Full-Stack Developer

Location: Şişli, Istanbul — On-site

Team: Product Development

Type: Full-time

Property Turkey connects international buyers with the best homes, investments, and lifestyle properties across Türkiye. We’re modernising how real estate is searched, evaluated, and purchased—end-to-end, from discovery to post-sale support.

We’re hiring a Full-Stack Developer who’s comfortable owning features across backend and frontend. You’ll improve the property search experience and build tools that power our sales, content, and ops teams.

• High-performance property search & discovery (map/search filters, saved searches, alerts)
• Lead capture & routing flows, CRM integrations, marketing automation
• Multilingual content, SEO & Core Web Vitals improvements
• Internal tools (inventory/pipeline dashboards, contract/workflow helpers)
• Data and content integrations with third-party listing/analytics services
• Gradual modularisation of our CakePHP codebase and better CI/CD

• Design and ship features end-to-end (DB → API → UI) with clear, maintainable code
• Build and maintain CakePHP controllers, services, jobs, and APIs (REST/JSON)
• Implement responsive, accessible UIs with modern JS (React or Vue preferred)
• Optimise MySQL queries, add indexes, profile bottlenecks, and tune caching (Redis)
• Raise reliability with tests (PHPUnit/Pest) and pragmatic instrumentation (Sentry, logs)
• Collaborate with Product/Design/SEO to deliver measurable outcomes
• Review PRs, improve standards, and contribute to our engineering playbook

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• 4+ years working with CakePHP (v3/4+) and PHP 8+
• Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, IAM; VPC basics)
• Solid SQL/MySQL schema design and query optimisation
• Strong frontend skills: modern JS/TS, component architecture, state mgmt, REST usage
• Excellent grasp of HTTP, security basics (OWASP), and API design
• Git workflows and CI/CD comfort (GitHub/GitLab, code review, pipelines)
• Clear communication in English (Turkish a plus)

• React or Vue in production (Next/Nuxt is a bonus)
• Search tech (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Meilisearch)
• Map/geo experiences (Leaflet/Mapbox/Google Maps)
• Caching & queues (Redis), background jobs, cron workers
• Containerisation & IaC (Docker; Terraform or CDK); advanced AWS (ECS/EKS) or DigitalOcean
• SEO for large sites (structured data/JSON-LD, sitemaps, CWV, SSR/SSG)
• Real-estate or marketplace experience, or CRM integrations
• Understanding of data privacy/GDPR/KVKK and consent flows

Backend: CakePHP 4, PHP 8.x, MySQL 8, Redis, REST

Frontend: React or Vue (TypeScript), Tailwind/Bootstrap

Ops: Docker, Nginx, GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, Sentry, AWS

• Ownership: ship meaningful features used by thousands of property seekers
• Impact: move key funnels (traffic → leads → sales) with real metrics
• Growth: modernise a mature product while shaping engineering standards
• Practical culture: we value clear specs, fast feedback, and sensible testing