Engineering Manager - Backend

at  Rightmove

We are on a mission to make the move easier and simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise and trust to make it happen. Home movers across the UK spend more than a billion minutes on Rightmove each month and our website and apps receive over 150 million visits per month. To work towards our mission, we’re now growing and looking for a Backend focussed Engineering Manager to support our engineers to innovative and produce exciting solutions for our external consumers, allowing for an even better Rightmove user journey. Our Engineering Managers help engineers make great technical decisions while developing their skills and experience. They support great team-working, set technical standards and direction, and grow strong communities of technical practice.
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. We recognise that to deliver the best products and features that satisfy millions of users, thousands of agents and hundreds of passionate Rightmovers, we need to work effectively as a healthy, high performing team.

Typical week as an Engineering Manager:

• Looking at ways of improving the product development lifecycle
• Exploring new ways to deliver frequently and safely into production
• Coaching and developing your people, with regular 1-to-1s and continuous feedback
• Driving a culture of craftsmanship and quality, establishing high technical standards and continuous improvement
• Supporting engineers to actively manage technical debt
• Helping teams anticipate and mitigate delivery risks
• Building technical communities, where teams are encouraged to share knowledge and help each other
• Hiring great people for the team’s long-term success and deliver an amazing candidate experience

• Staying up to date with the latest technologies and approaches to software development

  We are looking for someone who:

• Can establish great coding standards and encourages those around to do the same

• Creates an environment that encourages people to try out new things and learn from their mistakes
• Is comfortable with complex problem solving and applies the right technology solution
• Champions security, privacy, resilience and scalability, ensuring they’re at the forefront of decision-making
• Understands the wider architectural impact and ensures continuing improvements to the platform
• Encourages open two-way feedback so that teams share honestly, early and often
• Is passionate about technology and engineering craftsmanship
• Brings stakeholders on the journey to encourage buy-in and help shape plans

Please refer the Job description for details