Senior Frontend Software Engineer

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

Reporting to: Engineering Manager - Consumer 

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.

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What you'll get up to:

• 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, through knowledge sharing sessions, lunch and learns and 1-2-1 mentoring.
• Reviewing other developers’ code and debating options as a team  
• Investigating and promoting the latest, emergent technologies  

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

Our approach to AI: 
At Rightmove, we believe software and product are ultimately people problems, and everything we build aims to improve the lives of others. We see AI as a helpful way to create more space for the human side of our work, from understanding real needs to making sure we are solving the right problems in the right way. There is an expectation that you are proactive in exploring how AI can support your own workflow and productivity, and that you approach it with curiosity and an open mind.