Senior IOS Engineer II

Rightmove; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading property technology company is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer 2 to act as a technical leader for its iOS app. This role involves shaping the app's architecture, collaborating with various teams, and leading the implementation of impactful features. The ideal candidate will have extensive iOS experience and a passion for mentoring others. The company offers a hybrid working pattern, competitive salary, and a range of benefits including private medical insurance and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

Cash plan for dental, optical, and physio treatments

Private Medical Insurance

Pension and Life Insurance

27 days holiday plus volunteering days

Hybrid working with 2 days in office

Life assurance at 4x your basic salary

Competitive compensation package

Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption, and fertility

Travel Loans and Bike to Work scheme

Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving

Access to deals and discounts

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering complex iOS applications at scale.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to product strategy and business outcomes.
• Experience improving reliability and observability across devices.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture of the iOS app.
• Work with product teams to ensure technical consistency.
• Partner with leadership to build and communicate technical roadmaps.
• Lead implementation of high-impact features and refactors.
• Grow the capabilities of senior and mid-level engineers.
• Drive improvements to app reliability and monitoring.
• Shape coding standards and best practices.

Skills

Extensive experience delivering complex iOS applications

Designed and evolved modular architectures

Ability to connect technical decisions to product strategy

Works effectively with cross-functional teams

Leading large initiatives and setting technical direction

Deep understanding of reliability and performance

Mentoring and developing other engineers

Job description

Senior iOS Engineer 2

Consumer – Apps (Core) – London – Hybrid

Reporting to: Engineering Manager

Role Overview

We are on a mission to be "the app you can't move without". As the UK's biggest property app and website, our iOS app is a critical touchpoint for millions of home movers every month. We are looking for a Senior iOS Engineer 2 to act as a technical leader across the iOS platform. In this role you will shape the long‑term architecture, quality bar and developer experience for multiple teams, while still contributing hands‑on to complex initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the overall architecture of the iOS app, including modularisation strategy, navigation, design system integration, performance and observability.
• Work with several product teams to ensure technical consistency, reuse of shared components and alignment to platform principles.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to build and communicate technical roadmaps that support experimentation, speed and long‑term sustainability.
• Lead the implementation of high‑impact, cross‑cutting features and refactors, unblocking other engineers and coordinating work across teams.
• Grow the capabilities of Senior and Mid‑level engineers through pairing, design reviews and targeted coaching, raising the overall bar.
• Drive improvements to reliability, incident response, monitoring and alerting, ensuring a robust, highly available app experience.
• Shape coding standards, patterns and best practices, and lead knowledge sharing across the wider Native Apps and Engineering communities.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering complex iOS applications at scale, ideally in a consumer product environment.
• Designed and evolved modular architectures, shared libraries and cross‑cutting concerns such as navigation, design systems and networking.
• Can connect technical decisions to product strategy, experimentation needs and business outcomes, and influence roadmaps accordingly.
• Works effectively with Product, Design, QA, Data and Back‑end engineering leaders to align on priorities and trade‑offs.
• Track record of leading large initiatives, unblocking others and setting clear technical direction for multiple teams.
• Deep understanding of reliability, performance and observability, and experience improving these across a fleet of devices.
• Enjoys developing others, shaping hiring standards and contributing to a strong engineering culture.

Bonus

• Experience evolving legacy codebases into modern architectures.
• Contributions to the iOS community, such as talks, blogs or open source.
• Experience influencing technical direction in a multi‑platform environment (Android, Web, Backend).

Benefits

• Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments.
• Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan.
• 27 days holiday plus two paid volunteering days a year and holiday buy schemes.
• Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office.
• Contributory stakeholder pension.
• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility.
• Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan.
• Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching.
• Access deals and discounts on travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema and more.

EEO Statement

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success.