More details about the Senior Front End Engineer I

Senior Front End Engineer I

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

Reporting to: Engineering Manager

The role

As a Senior Software Engineer I, 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 collaborate with your team to encourage best coding practices. 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 deliver quality solutions that satisfy millions of users, thousands of agents, and hundreds of passionate Rightmovers. You will contribute towards 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 centralized teams, together working towards Rightmove’s strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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
• Contributing to engineering forums and taking part in initiatives to improve the practices of the engineering discipline at Rightmove
• Sharing knowledge with the team to support growth for other engineers
• Estimating user stories
• Taking part in code reviews and offering technical support to others
• Investigating and promoting the latest, emergent technologies
• Working in an Agile environment

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has experience working within a user-facing product team
• Is enthusiastic about the importance of testing, promotes TDD, and has experience with 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 users use them
• Wants to use the latest technologies and has a continuous improvement mindset
• Has 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

About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:

• Be approachable and appreciate what others do
• Make complex things as simple as possible
• Build great teams, because Rightmove is people
• Drive improvement, we can always be better
• Share early, honestly, and often

We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!

If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...

What we offer

People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.

• 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 the 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

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.

At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.

Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are and how you think and approach things than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can’t say ‘yes’ to all the above, but are smart, self-motivated, and passionate about Customer Care, then get in touch.