SENIOR FRONT END ENGINEER I

Location: London Office (Soho Square) / Hybrid (3 days a week working from home)
Reporting to: Engineering Manager

THE ROLE

As a Senior Software Engineer I, 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 collaborate with your team to encourage best coding practices. 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 deliver quality solutions that satisfy millions of users, thousands of agents and hundreds of passionate Rightmovers. You will contribute towards 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
• Contributing to engineering forums and take part in initiatives to improve the practices of the engineering discipline at Rightmove
• Sharing knowledge with the team to support growth for other engineers
• Estimating user stories
• Taking part in code reviews and offering technical support to others
• Investigating and promoting the latest, emergent technologies
• Working in an Agile environment