Senior (JAVA) Software Engineer II

at  Rightmove

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.