Head of Engineering (London)

Location: London (Hybrid - 2 days per week in the office), with frequent travel to Milton Keynes.

We are looking for a thoughtful and experienced person to help lead and grow our engineering organisation at Rightmove. This role is central to our continued success as we evolve our technology platform and deliver high-quality digital experiences for our users.

Are you a person who brings a strong track record of engineering leadership within complex, fast-paced environments? Are you someone who values collaboration, clear communication, and the development of others? Do you want to help shape a culture where engineers are supported, challenged, and able to do their best work?

What You’ll Do

• Lead with clarity and purpose: Set direction for engineering teams, ensuring alignment with business goals while maintaining a focus on quality, sustainability, and delivery.
• Foster a healthy engineering culture: Promote shared standards, continuous learning, and a collaborative environment where teams feel ownership and pride in their work.
• Support people and performance: Provide coaching, feedback, and career development for engineering managers.
• Helping build a strong team through thoughtful hiring and inclusive leadership.
• Drive technical excellence: Work with peers to define and evolve engineering practices, ensuring teams are equipped to make sound technical decisions.
• Balance delivery and platform health: Partner with product leaders to deliver at pace, while addressing technical debt and ensuring long-term maintainability.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships: Help bridge gaps between engineering and other parts of the business, ensuring shared understanding and effective collaboration.

What You’ll Bring

• Ability to lead engineering teams in a fast-paced product-focused tech environment.
• A pragmatic approach to technology strategy, balancing short-term needs with long-term goals.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and build trust across teams.
• A commitment to developing people and creating an inclusive, supportive team culture.
• A clear understanding of how engineering contributes to business outcomes, and the ability to keep teams focused on what matters most.

This is a key leadership role for someone who enjoys building strong teams, solving complex problems, and helping others succeed. If that sounds like you, we’d love to talk.

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’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 this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...

People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.

What we offer

• 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 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

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. 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.

Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are and how you think and approach things, than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can’t say ‘yes’ to all the above, but are smart, self-motivated and passionate, then get in touch.