Backend Java Engineer — Build Scalable Microservices

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Pension

Life Insurance

27 days holiday

Hybrid working with 2 office days

Employee Assistance Plan

Job summary

Rightmove is seeking a Java Engineer to join our Native Apps engineering group. You will develop high-quality, scalable services powering our iOS and Android apps, work with a cross-functional team, and promote automated testing and a thoughtful, test-driven approach across the team.

You’ll design APIs, review code, mentor others, and contribute to production reliability while embracing a culture of learning, creativity, and impact with hybrid working two days in the office.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining Java-based applications.
• Commitment to testing and test-driven development (TDD).
• Analytical and collaborative approach to solving problems.
• Write clean, maintainable, scalable code.
• Interest in production performance and user interactions.
• Strong learning mindset and willingness to share knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Identify and resolve production issues, analysing logs for timely fixes.
• Design and architect scalable, secure, maintainable systems.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, QA, and Data to deliver features.

Skills

Java

Testing & TDD

Analytical thinking

Collaborative

Ownership / accountability

Tools

Spring Boot

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Gradle

Hibernate

Couchbase

SQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Job description

Rightmove is seeking a Java Engineer to join our Native Apps engineering group. You will develop high-quality, scalable services powering our iOS and Android apps, work with a cross-functional team, and promote automated testing and a thoughtful, test-driven approach across the team.

You’ll design APIs, review code, mentor others, and contribute to production reliability while embracing a culture of learning, creativity, and impact with hybrid working two days in the office.