Principal Engineer (Backend)

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <hr> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><h4><span style="color: rgb(0, 222, 182);">Location: </span>London office / Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 222, 182);">Reporting to:</span> Head of Engineering<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 222, 182);">Domain:</span> Consumer</h4> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 222, 182); font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">The Role…</span></strong>&nbsp;</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Rightmove's consumer product-domain&nbsp;builds&nbsp;what most people picture when they think of Rightmove. Property search, listing pages, saved searches, maps, alerts, valuations. It gets an enormous amount of traffic,&nbsp;it's&nbsp;used at one of the most stressful moments in people's lives, and around 60 engineers work across it every day.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">We're&nbsp;hiring a Principal Engineer into this domain.&nbsp;This is a senior, cross-domain role for someone who wants to drive impact across multiple teams, deepen our architectural thinking, and help us raise the bar on technical execution, product delivery, and long-term platform health.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Your technical grounding is in Java and Spring Boot, and&nbsp;you're&nbsp;genuinely expert there. But you think and&nbsp;operate&nbsp;well beyond your specialism: across front-end, mobile, data, infrastructure, and delivery.&nbsp;You're&nbsp;comfortable challenging assumptions at any layer of the stack, and you connect technical decisions to real user and business outcomes without needing to be prompted.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">You’ll&nbsp;bring a mix of deep technical&nbsp;expertise, strong product instincts, and collaborative leadership, acting as a trusted partner to engineering managers, product leads, and domain heads.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;" data-ccp-props="{}">✍️Head to our&nbsp;<a href="https://rightmove.blog/">tech blog</a> to find out more about our engineering culture!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 222, 182);"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">What&nbsp;you'll&nbsp;be doing…</span></strong></span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Engineering &amp; Architecture Leadership</span></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Lead the design of systems that are scalable, resilient, and fit for purpose, particularly&nbsp;where&nbsp;complexity cuts across team boundaries.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Shape the architectural direction of the&nbsp;consumer domain&nbsp;in alignment with our strategic goals.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Identify&nbsp;areas where we can increase reuse, improve performance, or make smarter technology decisions.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">

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