IT & Software

Software Engineer (Backend) - Agent Select

Rightmove

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Backend Engineer role, you design, build and evolve scalable services that power Rightmove’s core marketplace. You will work in a cross-functional team to deliver robust, secure software for millions of users, balancing feature delivery with platform health. You’ll influence technical direction, contribute to architecture discussions and explore new technologies to add value. This role offers a collaborative culture, ownership of features from idea to production, and a chance to impact how people move and decide in the housing market.

Pay / Benefits
  • Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
  • Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
  • 27 days holiday + volunteering days + holiday buy schemes
  • Contributory stakeholder pension
  • Life assurance 4x salary
  • Maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility leave
Responsibilities
  • Design, build and enhance services using Java 21+, Spring Boot, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, SQL, Docker and Gradle
  • Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Engineers and stakeholders to address business challenges
  • Own features from ideation to production, shaping technical and product decisions
  • Build secure, scalable, and maintainable software supporting current and future needs
  • Balance feature delivery with platform improvements and technical debt reduction
  • Monitor and improve performance, reliability and resilience of production systems
  • Contribute to architecture discussions and influence technical direction
  • Explore and champion new technologies to create value
Key requirements
  • Commercial experience building backend applications with Java 21+, Spring Boot and Kafka
  • Enjoys solving complex technical problems and collaborating with others
  • Understanding of modern engineering practices, including testing, CI/CD and deployment automation
  • Willingness to adopt AI tools and share learnings
  • Strong ownership and accountability for outcomes
  • Curiosity about system performance and user interaction with software
  • collaboration
  • ownership
  • curiosity
  • Java 21+
  • Spring Boot
  • Kafka

Reference: WJ-747_30988930

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