Senior Front End Engineer

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

Reporting to: Engineering Manager

The role

As a Senior Software Engineer, 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.

Key Responsibilities:

Developing features and improvements to our applications, with the use of Typescript, React, Next, Node, Kubernetes and Gitlab.
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 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
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