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Senior Software Engineer I - Backend (Java) at Rightmove Careers

Department: Back-end

Setup
Hybrid
Location
London, England
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Rightmove is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in London on a hybrid basis requiring two days in the London office. The role develops self-serving customer-facing platform features using Java 17+, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Gradle, Hibernate, Couchbase, SQL, and Docker, while owning technical decisions, balancing technical debt, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Candidates should have strong commercial experience with Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka, have led complex projects across multiple engineers, and understand TDD and pipeline optimisation.

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