Rightmove

Company Name: Rightmove
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer II - Frontend
Job Description: Senior Front End Engineer II

Location: London Office / Hybrid (3 days a week working from home)

Reporting to: Sam Smith - Engineering Manager

The role

As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality software and products, able to be deployed frequently and safely into production. Working with similarly minded people, you will help to shape the way we use and adopt technologies and practices, with a modern engineering mindset. You are an advocate of test automation and have a clear view of where to make the best use of it.

At Rightmove we work as part of autonomous cross-functional teams in an agile environment. Each team owns a part of the Rightmove experience made up of design, product and engineering. You will collaborate to ensure we deliver quality solutions that satisfy millions of users, thousands of agents and hundreds of passionate Rightmovers. You will be responsible for defining solutions to business and technical problems in a way which ensures maintainability, scalability and high performance standards. We work collaboratively across a mix of product and centralised teams, together working towards Rightmove’s strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

Developing features and improvements to our applications, with the use of Typescript, React, Express, Node, Kubernetes and Gitlab
Collaborating with internal stakeholders and the team to find solutions to complex problems
Contributing to key decisions, including which features to include during team sprints
Leading architecture and system design of complex projects alongside your team, Architects and Principal Engineers
Contributing to engineering forums and take part in initiatives to improve the practices of the engineering discipline at Rightmove
Coach and mentor less experienced engineers to help them develop their technical skills
Estimating user stories
Reviewing other developers’ code and debating options as a team
Investigating and promoting the latest, emergent technologies
Working in an Agile environment

We’re looking for someone who:

Has great problem-solving skills
Is enthusiastic about the importance of testing, promotes TDD and has experience of react testing frameworks like Jest and React testing library
Enjoys delivering high quality code and likes to debate the merits of different solutions
Has a keen interest in the performance of live applications and how our user’s use them
Wants to use the latest technologies and takes initiative to improve the way the team works
Has strong experience with mentoring other engineers
Likes to ask questions and use the experience of those around them
Has a sense of ownership and responsibility for the work you and your team deliver

About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:

Be approachable and appreciate what others do
Make complex things as simple as possible
Build great teams, because Rightmove is people
Drive improvement, we can always be better
Share early, honestly and often

We believe in careers that open doors, and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!

If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...

What we offer

People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.

Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes
Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office
Contributory stakeholder pension
Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life
Competitive compensation package
Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility
Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan
Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching
Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.

At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.

Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are, and how you think and approach things, than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can’t say ‘yes’ to all the above, but are smart, self-motivated and passionate about Customer Care, then get in touch.

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

05-03-2025

Company Name: Rightmove
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Job Description: Role: Site Reliability Engineering Manager (Website Infrastructure & Operations Manager)

Location: London / Hybrid - 2 days per week in the office

Reporting to: Head of Technology Operations

The Platform and Reliability Engineering Team are responsible for the technology platforms and services that underpin the Rightmove website, ensuring it is available, secure and performing to a world-class standard. We strive to deliver annual availability of at least 99.99% (less than 5 mins downtime a month).

The Site Reliability Engineering Manager’s focus is to ensure their teams maintain our datacentre and cloud website infrastructure, safely migrate services to Google Cloud, and enable others to easily manage the reliability of production services across the Rightmove Website Estate.

A typical week as the Site Reliability Engineering Manager might involve:

Ensuring the right people, process and tooling are in place to maintain a healthy, resilient, and secure datacentre and cloud website platform.
Creating and managing technical plans for the migration of applications and infrastructure to Google Cloud.
Developing cloud engineering and operations skills within your teams
Working through supplier due diligence process for support contract renewals to ensure key components are kept in support.
Working with engineering managers, product owners, and engineers to optimise and improve service health
Identify, plan and implement improvements to the incident management process
Reducing handoffs or improving flow/lead times within development teams by providing operational/infrastructure support for the platform.

We’re looking for someone who:

Has previous experience managing engineers that are building and running website infrastructure and web services and previous experience running website technical operations.
Is highly operationally aware, understanding what it takes to maintain a healthy website infrastructure and services.
Is an experienced manager who understands how to get the best out of their people and teams.
Has excellent judgement and can instill this in engineers, leading them to the best outcomes on technical decisions and architecture whilst enabling their development.
Is happy to dive deep into technical discussions with their team and can surface risks and issues relating to projects.
Is able to keep calm and work effectively in high pressure situations
Has experience migrating infrastructure and web services from datacentres to cloud
Has deep experience and understanding of DevOps and SRE principles and practices
Always pushes for continuous improvement and has strong attention to detail

Relevant Technology we use:

F5, Juniper, Arbor
VMware, HP 3Par
Google Cloud Platform
Google Kubernetes Engine with Anthos Service Mesh
Confluent Cloud
Incident.io
Gitlab
Jira, Confluence, Slack, Teams
Elastic APM, Kibana
Eggplant Monitoring, Xymon
Java, Node, Python, Javascript, Go

About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:

Be approachable and appreciate what others do
Make complex things as simple as possible
Build great teams, because Rightmove is people
Drive improvement, we can always be better
Share early, honestly and often

We believe in careers that open doors, and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!

If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...

What we offer

People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.

Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes
Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office
Contributory stakeholder pension
Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life
Competitive compensation package
Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility
Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan
Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching
Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.

Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are and how you think and approach things, than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can’t say ‘yes’ to all the above, but are smart, self-motivated and passionate, then get in touch.

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

07-03-2025

Company Name: Rightmove
Job Title: Platform Engineer (Developer Experience)
Job Description: Role: Platform Engineer (Developer Experience)

Location: London / Hybrid

Reporting to: Platform Engineering Manager

This role represents a unique opportunity for a mid-level engineer with a strong Java foundation to expand their expertise into Platform Engineering and join a team prioritising automation, observability, and delivering value in iterations, while directly shaping developer productivity through self-service tooling and standardised workflows.

The initial focus of the role is to maintain existing Java services, owned by the Developer Experience team. The team is currently working on migrating services to the Cloud. The role will then shift to enhance our Internal Developer Platform solution, to abstract the infrastructure complexities for developers, enabling developers to build and deliver microservices efficiently.

Success in this role requires balancing hands-on Java service maintenance with platform architecture, CI/CD pipeline design, and developer enablement.

A typical week as a Platform Engineer in Developer Experience team might involve:â¯â¯

Maintaining Java services owned by the Developer Experience team.
Working with developers, providing support
Delivering training workshops to our internal customers, when necessary, and improving documentation.
Working on platform tasks and learning more about the technologies we use.
Expanding self-service capabilities in the internal platform to cover common use cases.

Core Responsibilities

Platform Development:
Enhance IDP Platform
Create Gitlab CI templates
Standardise configuration and monitoring
Developer Support: participate in the rota to provide support to developers for platform related issues in areas that Developer Experience owns. We do a weekly review and brainstorm ways of reducing the number of requests through automation and building auditable self-service tooling, documentation and training.
Operational Excellence: participate in the out of hours on-call rota (1 week/month - competitive additional compensation offered).

Required Skills

Experience with modern Java: to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
Experience with test frameworks: JUnit and Mockito is essential.
Debugging skills: to be able to identify and resolve issues in complex systems.
Gradle Fundamentals: to write and maintain complex Gradle build files.
Dependency Management: to understand different dependency configurations and resolving conflicts.
Multi-Project Builds: to be able to set up and manage multi-project builds in Gradle
Performance Optimization: a good understanding of Gradle builds speed optimisations and efficiency is a big plus.
Springboot knowledge for the purpose of library upgrades.
Custom Gradle plugin: to be able to create custom Gradle tasks to automate build processes, retrieve properties, code generation, or other development tasks.
Security: Experience working within an SDLC framework (ISO 27002:2022), understanding of SALSA and SBOMs.

We’re looking for someone who:

Always pushes for continuous improvement and has strong attention to detail.
Positive outlook, good people and communication skills.
Has an automation mindset.

Relevant Technology we use:â¯

Google Cloud Platform
Google Kubernetes Engine with Anthos Service Mesh
Confluent Cloud
Incident.io
Gitlab
Jira, Confluence, Slack, Teams
Elastic APM, Kibana
Java, Node, Python, Javascript, Go, React

About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:

Be approachable and appreciate what others do
Make complex things as simple as possible
Build great teams, because Rightmove is people
Drive improvement, we can always be better
Share early, honestly and often

We believe in careers that open doors, and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!

If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...

What we offer

People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.

Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes
Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office
Contributory stakeholder pension
Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life
Competitive compensation package
Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility
Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan
Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching
Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.

Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are and how you think and approach things, than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can’t say ‘yes’ to all the above, but are smart, self-motivated and passionate, then get in touch.

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

20-03-2025

Company Name: Rightmove
Job Title: Senior (Java) Software Engineer II
Job Description: Role: Senior Software Engineer II

Location: London (Hybrid)

Reports to: Engineering Manager

The role

We are on a mission to make home moving easier and simpler. Home movers across the UK spend more than a billion minutes on Rightmove each month and our website and apps receive over 140 million visits per month. To support our mission, we need software engineers with vision and passion to deliver innovative and exciting solutions for our internal users, working on in house applications and microservices integrated with third party applications that underpin how Rightmove operates.

At Rightmove we work in autonomous cross-functional teams using Agile processes. Each team owns a part of the Rightmove experience made up of design, product, engineering and testing specialists. You will collaborate to ensure we deliver quality solutions that satisfy millions of users, thousands of agents and hundreds of passionate Rightmovers. You will be responsible for defining solutions to business and technical problems in a way which ensures maintainability, scalability and high-performance standards.

What you'll be doing

Developing features and improvements to our applications using Java, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Gradle, Hibernate, Couchbase, SQL, Docker
Collaborating with internal contacts and the teams to find solutions to complex problems.
Taking ownership of key technical decisions and project delivery.
Balancing new deliveries against technical debt, and finding the right timing for the two.
Ensuring delivery quality, including meeting security standards and providing for future extensibility of the codebase.
Communicating with stakeholders and third parties to understand the needs and how they link together.
Investigating and promoting the latest emergent technologies. Finding opportunities to attach these to the business roadmap in ways that benefit both the business and the tech function.
Coach and mentor less experienced engineers to help them develop their technical skills. You will work closely with the Engineering Manager to understand how best to grow the people around you and give them a working environment with a sense of achievement, success, pride, and ownership.

We're looking for someone who

Has extensive commercial experience of writing applications with Java, Springboot and Kafka.
Has been the lead on technically complex projects where you have assigned work to multiple engineers.
Has strong coordination and collaboration skills.
Has great problem-solving skills.
Has previously fed in to strong TDD practices, and can debate the pros and cons of left-shifting in the pipeline.
Can debate the merits of different solutions, and can discuss where to trim a solution or requirements in order to balance business OKRs against technical OKRs.
Has a keen interest in the performance of live applications and how our users use them.
Has previously brought new technologies or frameworks to their teams, and has taken initiative to improve the way the team works.
Looks to share their knowledge with the rest of the product development team.
Likes to ask questions and use the experience of those around them.
Has a sense of ownership and responsibility for the work you and your team deliver.
Recognizes an environment of social and psychological safety, and understands how to help create this in a team that is responsible for delivering high quality software and impactful projects.

About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:

Be approachable and appreciate what others do
Make complex things as simple as possible
Build great teams, because Rightmove is people
Drive improvement, we can always be better
Share early, honestly and often

We believe in careers that open doors, and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!

If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...

What we offer

People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.

Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes
Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office
Contributory stakeholder pension
Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life
Competitive compensation package
Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility
Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan
Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching
Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.

At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.

Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are, and how you think and approach things, than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can’t say ‘yes’ to all the above, but are smart, self-motivated and passionate about this role, then get in touch.

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

20-03-2025

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