Senior Backend Engineer
hackajob
London
hackajob is collaborating with Rightmove to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Role: Senior (Java + PHP) Backend Engineer I Location: London (Hybrid - 2 days in the Soho Office) Reports to: Engineering Manager 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
- Develop new features and improvements using Java 17+, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Gradle, Hibernate, Couchbase, SQL, and Docker as part of our PHP-to-Java migration.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams and stakeholders to align on goals and requirements.
- Take ownership of key technical decisions and end-to-end project delivery.
- Balance feature development with technical debt, making thoughtful trade-offs based on timing and impact.
- Ensure high-quality, secure, and extensible code that meets current and future needs.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders and third parties to align technical solutions with business objectives.
- Advocate for emerging technologies that drive value and align with the company roadmap.
- Mentor junior engineers and help foster a culture of growth, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Extensive commercial experience with Java 17+, PHP, Spring Boot, and Kafka.
- Proven leadership on complex projects, including task assignment across multiple engineers.
- Strong collaboration, coordination, and solution-oriented mindset.
- Deep understanding of TDD practices and pipeline optimisation, including left-shifting.
- Skilled in balancing technical and business OKRs through pragmatic decision-making.
- Passionate about application performance and user behaviour insights.
- Proactive in introducing new technologies and improving team practices.
- Committed to knowledge sharing, fostering team ownership, and creating a psychologically safe environment.
- We create value…by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers.
- We think bigger…by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations.
- We care deeply…by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity.
- We move together…by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive.
- We make a difference…by focusing on delivering measurable impact.
- Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
- Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
- 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes
- Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office
- Contributory stakeholder pension
- Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life
- Competitive compensation package
- Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility
- Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan
- Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching
- Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more
Posted 2026-03-15
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