Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen.
We’re home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market.
Role: Senior iOS Engineer 2 - Consumer - Apps (Core)
Location: Soho Square, London Office / Hybrid
Reporting to: Engineering Manager
The Role
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. You will work closely with cross discipline leaders in Product Management, QA, Back-end engineering, Product Design and Analytics to define technical roadmaps that unlock ambitious product bets. You will be the go-to person for complex technical decisions, platform wide improvements and incident response.
Responsibilities will include:
- Platform Ownership: Define and evolve the overall architecture of the iOS app, including modularisation strategy, navigation, design system integration, performance and observability.
- Cross-Team Leadership: Work with several product teams to ensure technical consistency, reuse of shared components and alignment to platform principles.
- Technical Strategy: Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to build and communicate technical roadmaps that support experimentation, speed and long-term sustainability.
- Complex Delivery: Lead the implementation of high impact, cross cutting features and refactors, unblocking other engineers and coordinating work across teams.
- Coaching and Mentoring: Grow the capabilities of Senior and Mid-level engineers through pairing, design reviews and targeted coaching, raising the overall bar.
- Operational Excellence: Drive improvements to reliability, incident response, monitoring and alerting, ensuring we maintain a robust, highly available app experience.
- Community and Standards: Shape coding standards, patterns and best practices, and lead knowledge sharing across the wider Native Apps and Engineering communities.
We are looking for someone who:
- Experience: Has extensive experience delivering complex iOS applications at scale, ideally in a consumer product environment.
- Architectural Depth: Has designed and evolved modular architectures, shared libraries and cross-cutting concerns such as navigation, design systems and networking.
- Strategic Thinking: Can connect technical decisions to product strategy, experimentation needs and business outcomes, and influence roadmaps accordingly.
- Cross-Functional Influence: Works effectively with Product, Design, QA, Data and Back-end engineering leaders to align on priorities and tradeoffs.
- Technical Leadership: Has a track record of leading large initiatives, unblocking others and setting clear technical direction for multiple teams.
- Operational Focus: Understands reliability, performance and observability in depth, and has experience improving these across a fleet of devices.
- People Development: Enjoys developing others, shaping hiring standards and contributing to a strong engineering culture.
Bonus points for:
- 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).
Our vision is to give everyone the belief that they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.
We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.
Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:
- We create value…by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers.
- We think bigger…by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations.
- We care deeply…by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity.
- We move together…by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive.
- We make a difference…by focusing on delivering measurable impact.
We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!
If all of this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making......
- 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 to give back, and holiday buy schemes.
- Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in the office.
- Contributory stakeholder pension.
- Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life.
- 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 things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more.
At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success., We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve. By applying, you confirm that you are aged at least 18 or over and that you’ve read and understood our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle and protect your personal information during the recruitment process.
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What We Do
Since launching in March 2000, we have remained the market leader and the go to place for people looking for their next home to buy or place to rent. To make all those home hunters happy we’ve invested in our tech and our website, we’re constantly looking to try new things with an aim to help make home moving easier. Home movers across the UK spend more than a billion minutes on Rightmove each month. Our website and apps receive over 150M views per month, making us one of the most top visited sites in the UK! Helping our customers to market to the largest possible audience and to win more business is at the heart of everything we do. We offer dedicated memberships and specialist teams to support property professionals across the residential and commercial property markets, in the UK and Overseas. Want to work with us? Keep an eye out for career opportunities!
