Senior Software Engineer II (Backend)

Senior Backend Engineer II (Java)

Location: London (Hybrid – 2 days in the London Office)

Reports to: Engineering Manager

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 monthly. To support this scale, we’re looking for Software Engineers with the curiosity, expertise and drive to build reliable, high‑performance systems that sit at the heart of Rightmove’s search experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and developing new features and platform capabilities using Java 17+, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Gradle, Hibernate, Couchbase, SQL, and Docker.
• Owning end‑to‑end delivery of technical solutions, from shaping requirements through to deployment and monitoring.
• Improving and scaling our Elasticsearch‑based search systems, including index design, query o...