Principal Backend Engineer & Architecture Lead (Hybrid)

Legal Counsel - 12 month FTC at Rightmove Greenhouse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Pension

Cash plan for health services

27 days holiday

Job summary

Rightmove is hiring a Principal Engineer to lead architectural thinking across the consumer domain in a hybrid London role. You will drive scalable, resilient systems and partner with product managers to deliver high-value initiatives.

You’ll mentor engineers and shape long-term platform health while aligning with strategic goals. You will operate across frontend, backend, data and infra layers, turning technical decisions into real business outcomes and mentoring teams toward better ways of

Qualifications

• Deep experience designing and delivering complex systems with significant business or user impact.
• Strong leadership across multiple teams or domains.
• Genuine interest in AI-driven development and practical judgement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of scalable, resilient systems that cross team boundaries.
• Shape the architectural direction of the consumer domain in line with strategic goals.
• Guide scoping, sequencing and risk for large, high-value initiatives in partnership with PMs.
• Mentor and influence senior engineers and tech leads, promoting best practices.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Architectural thinking

Cross-domain collaboration

Mentorship

Job description

Rightmove is hiring a Principal Engineer to lead architectural thinking across the consumer domain in a hybrid London role. You will drive scalable, resilient systems and partner with product managers to deliver high-value initiatives.

You’ll mentor engineers and shape long-term platform health while aligning with strategic goals. You will operate across frontend, backend, data and infra layers, turning technical decisions into real business outcomes and mentoring teams toward better ways of