Java Backend Engineer - Scalable Microservices

Rightmove Careers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Pension

Life Insurance

27 days holiday + volunteering days

Hybrid working

Travel discounts

Job summary

Rightmove is seeking a Java Engineer to join the Native Apps engineering group in London. You will develop high-quality, scalable services powering Rightmove’s iOS and Android apps, within a cross-functional team and with a strong emphasis on testing and reliability.

You will design solutions to complex challenges, promote test-driven development, review code, and mentor teammates while contributing to production-grade systems in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining Java-based applications.
• Strong testing mindset and familiarity with TDD practices.
• Analytical and collaborative approach to solving problems.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
• Curiosity about production performance and user interactions.
• Willingness to learn and improve team processes.
• Desire to share knowledge and contribute to a supportive culture.
• Ownership and accountability for delivering high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities

• Identify and resolve production issues, analyse logs for timely fixes.
• Contribute to design and architecture of scalable, secure systems.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, QA, and Data to deliver high-quality features.

Skills

Java

Testing / TDD

Analytical approach

Collaborative

Problem solving

Tools

Spring Boot

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Gradle

Hibernate

Couchbase

SQL

Docker

Job description

Rightmove is seeking a Java Engineer to join the Native Apps engineering group in London. You will develop high-quality, scalable services powering Rightmove’s iOS and Android apps, within a cross-functional team and with a strong emphasis on testing and reliability.

You will design solutions to complex challenges, promote test-driven development, review code, and mentor teammates while contributing to production-grade systems in a hybrid work environment.