Customer Engineering Manager — Build High-Impact Teams

Legal Counsel - 12 month FTC at Rightmove Greenhouse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday

Private Medical Insurance

Pension and Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Plan

Dental/Optical/Physio cash plan

Job summary

Rightmove in London’s Soho is hiring an experienced Engineering Manager to lead cross-functional product teams in the Customer domain. You’ll enable teams to deliver value, coach engineers, and align priorities with Product Managers while ensuring sustainable delivery on our NodeJS and Java (Spring Boot) stack on Google Cloud Platform.

You’ll partner with PMs, tech leads, and architects to shape the engineering organisation, grow talent, hire well, and scale systems.

Qualifications

• Prior experience managing software engineers in a product development environment.
• Strong track record of supporting delivery and improving team ways of working.
• Confidence in planning, estimation, scope, and stakeholder alignment.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to build trust across a wide range of people and roles.
• A calm, thoughtful, and pragmatic approach - especially when the stakes are high or ambiguity is present.
• A genuine interest in growing others, including coaching, feedback, and performance development.

Responsibilities

• People and Team Development: grow engineers through clear development goals, coaching, feedback, and mentoring.
• Create a psychologically safe and inclusive environment where people are empowered to do great work and challenge with care.
• Align career development with team success, ensuring individuals are stretched and supported.
• Champion our culture, modelling high standards and helping others connect, grow, and thrive.
• Planning and Delivery: partner with Product Manager to align priorities, capacity, and scope; create clear goals and realistic plans.
• Ensure the team has the right structure, skills, and clarity to deliver consistently and sustainably.
• Monitor delivery flow, remove blockers, and drive improvements to process, quality, and velocity.
• Technical Stewardship: ensure long-term health and maintainability of systems; collaborate with tech leads, architects, and other EMs to share context and improve design.
• Encourage good practices around testing, observability, performance, and resilience.
• Hiring and Talent Development: take a leading role in hiring, onboarding, and growing diverse engineering talent.
• Shape team structure and capabilities over time, based on work needs and growth.
• Support calibration and promotion processes with fairness and clarity.
• Collaboration and Leadership: build a strong partnership with your PM; translate between technical and business contexts; drive alignment.

Skills

People management

Delivery leadership

Planning & estimation

Collaboration

Coaching & mentoring

Strategic thinking

Tools

NodeJS

Java (Spring Boot)

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Rightmove in London’s Soho is hiring an experienced Engineering Manager to lead cross-functional product teams in the Customer domain. You’ll enable teams to deliver value, coach engineers, and align priorities with Product Managers while ensuring sustainable delivery on our NodeJS and Java (Spring Boot) stack on Google Cloud Platform.

You’ll partner with PMs, tech leads, and architects to shape the engineering organisation, grow talent, hire well, and scale systems.