Platform / Java Engineer (Developer Experience)

Platform / Java Engineer (Developer Experience)

Role: Platform Engineer (Developer Experience)

Location: London / Hybrid

Reporting to: Platform Engineering Manager

Role Overview

This role represents a unique opportunity for a mid‑level engineer with a strong Java foundation to expand their expertise into Platform Engineering. The team prioritises automation, observability, and delivering value in iterations, directly shaping developer productivity through self‑service tooling and standardised workflows. The initial focus is maintaining existing Java services owned by the Developer Experience team and migrating them to the Cloud. After that, the role will enhance our Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to abstract infrastructure complexities for developers, enabling efficient microservice development.

A Typical Week

• Maintaining Java services owned by the Developer Experience team.
• Working with developers, providing support.
• Delivering training workshops to internal customers and improving documentation.
• Working on platform tasks and learning more about the technologies we use.
• Expanding self‑service capabilities in the internal platform to cover common use cases.

Core Responsibilities

• Platform Development: enhance IDP Platform, create GitLab CI templates, standardise configuration and monitoring.
• Developer Support: participate in the rota to provide support to developers for platform‑related issues, review requests weekly and brainstorm ways to reduce them through automation and self‑service tooling, documentation, and training.
• Operational Excellence: participate in the out‑of‑hours on‑call rota (1 week/month – competitive additional compensation offered).

Required Skills

• Experience with modern Java to write clean, efficient, and well‑documented code.
• Experience with JUnit and Mockito test frameworks.
• Strong debugging skills to identify and resolve issues in complex systems.
• Gradle fundamentals: write and maintain complex Gradle build files, manage dependency configurations, resolve conflicts, and set up multi‑project builds.
• Performance optimisation of Gradle builds (speed and efficiency).
• Spring Boot knowledge for library upgrades.
• Custom Gradle plugin development to automate build processes and other development tasks.
• Security experience within an SDLC framework (ISO 27002:2022), understanding of SALSA and SBOMs.

We’re Looking For Someone Who

• Always pushes for continuous improvement and pays strong attention to detail.
• Has a positive outlook, good people and communication skills.
• Has an automation mindset.

Relevant Technologies

• Google Cloud Platform
• Google Kubernetes Engine with Anthos Service Mesh
• Confluent Cloud
• Incident.io
• GitLab
• Jira, Confluence, Slack, Teams
• Elastic APM, Kibana
• Java, Node, Python, JavaScript, Go, React

About Rightmove

Rightmove’s vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move, simplifying the process by providing the best tools, expertise and trust. We’re home to the UK\’s largest choice of properties and a go‑to destination for millions of people planning their next move.

We maintain a friendly, supportive workplace, guided by the Rightmove Hows – values that foster collaboration, curiosity, diversity and measurable impact.

Compensation & 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 4× your basic salary to a spouse, family member or 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

Equal Opportunity Employer

Rightmove is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees.

Join Us

Ultimately, we care more about the person you are and your approach than a list of qualifications. Even if you can’t meet all the skills above, if you are smart, self‑motivated and passionate, please get in touch.