Senior (JAVA) Software Engineer II

4 days ago


Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom Rightmove Full time

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 team to find solutions to complex problems

• Contributing to key decisions, including which features to include during team sprints

• 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

• Coach and mentor less experienced engineers to help them develop their technical skills

We’re looking for someone who

• Has commercial experience of writing applications with Java

• Enjoys refactoring and modernising legacy solutions into cutting-edge cloud platforms

• Has strong coordination and collaboration skills

• Has great problem-solving skills

• Is enthusiastic about the importance of testing and promotes TDD

• 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

• 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

What you’ll bring to the role

• In addition to what we said above, you will bring your seniority and technical leadership to unify other engineers, lead by example and set high standards

• Delivery focussed

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.

Were home to the UKs 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 whats 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



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