Location: London (Hybrid – 2 days in the London Office)Reports to: Engineering Manager – Customer Tooling
Job Summary
At Rightmove, we’re on a mission to make home moving easier and simpler for everyone. We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help shape and deliver innovative solutions for our customers. You will develop and build out a unique part of the platform, offering self‑serving products that help our customers manage their portfolios and navigate the platform seamlessly. Your contributions will support millions of users, thousands of agents, and hundreds of Rightmovers, while defining scalable, maintainable, and high‑performance solutions to both business and technical challenges.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Designing and building new features and enhancements using Java 17+, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Gradle, Hibernate, Couchbase, SQL, and Docker.
- Collaborating with cross‑functional teams and stakeholders to shape solutions and align on priorities.
- Taking ownership of key technical decisions and delivering projects end‑to‑end.
- Balancing new feature development with technical debt, making thoughtful, pragmatic trade‑offs.
- Writing high‑quality, secure, and extensible code that supports both current needs and future growth.
- Communicating effectively with stakeholders and third parties to ensure solutions meet business objectives.
- Championing new and emerging technologies that add value and align with our roadmap.
- Mentoring and supporting junior engineers, fostering a culture of growth, ownership, and continuous improvement.
We’re Looking For Someone Who
- Brings strong commercial experience with Java 17+, Spring Boot, and Kafka.
- Has successfully led complex projects, including coordinating work across multiple engineers.
- Is highly collaborative, organised, and solution‑focused in their approach.
- Has a deep understanding of TDD practices and pipeline optimisation, including left‑shifting.
- Can balance technical priorities with business OKRs through pragmatic decision‑making.
- Is passionate about performance, scalability, and understanding user behaviour.
- Proactively introduces new ideas, technologies, and ways of working to improve team outcomes.
- Is committed to sharing knowledge, fostering team ownership, and contributing to a psychologically safe and inclusive environment.
Benefits
- Cash plan for dental, optical, and physiotherapy treatments.
- Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan.
- 27 days holiday plus two paid volunteering days a year and holiday buy schemes.
- Contributory stakeholder pension and life assurance at 4x basic salary to a nominated person.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption, and fertility.
- Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, and Rental Deposit Loan.
- Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching.
- Access deals and discounts on travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema, and more.
- Hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days in the office.
Equal Opportunity Statement – Rightmove is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.
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