Engineering Manager in London

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Location: London office / Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

Reporting to: Head of Engineering

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead one or more of our cross‑functional product development teams at Rightmove. You’ll build a healthy, high‑performing team by enabling others to do their best work, maintaining strong delivery focus, and fostering a culture that reflects our values. Engineering Managers at Rightmove are not just people leaders, but delivery enablers, engineering advocates, and strategic partners to Product Managers. You’ll work collaboratively to ensure teams focus on the right things, solve valuable problems, and operate sustainably and inclusively. You’ll impact the shape of our engineering organisation, planning, delivery, talent growth and system scale.

What You’ll Be Doing

• People and Team Development: Support the growth of 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 in the right ways. Champion our culture, modelling high standards and helping others connect, grow and thrive.
• Planning and Delivery: Partner with your Product Manager to align priorities, capacity and scope – creating clear goals and realistic plans. Ensure your team has the right structure, skills and clarity to deliver consistently and sustainably. Monitor delivery flow, remove blockers and drive improvements to how the team works. Proactively manage risks, make trade‑offs where needed and represent your team in cross‑functional planning.
• Technical Stewardship: Ensure the long‑term health and maintainability of the systems your team owns. Collaborate with tech leads, architects and other EMs to share context, resolve dependencies and improve system design. Encourage good practices around testing, observability, performance and resilience – ensuring your team owns their systems in production.
• 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 what the work needs and where people can grow. Support calibration and promotion processes by advocating fairly and clearly for your engineers.
• Collaboration and Leadership: Build a strong partnership with your PM, acting as a united leadership pair who bring clarity and momentum to the team. Translate between technical and business contexts, ensuring stakeholders are informed and aligned. Operate with a broader view – solving local problems, but always in service of organisation‑wide outcomes.

What We’re Looking For

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

Our Approach to AI

At Rightmove, we believe software and product are ultimately people problems, and everything we build aims to improve the lives of others. We see AI as a helpful way to create more space for the human side of our work – from understanding real needs to making sure we are solving the right problems in the right way. You should be proactive in exploring how AI can support your own workflow and productivity, and approach it with curiosity and an open mind.

About Rightmove

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 are the UK’s largest choice of properties and 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.

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 the office.
• Contributory stakeholder pension.
• Life assurance at 4× your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption and 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.

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

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