Platform / Java Engineer (Developer Experience)

The initial focus of the role is to maintain existing Java services, owned by the Developer Experience team . The team is currently working on migrating services to the Cloud. The role will then shift to enhance our Internal Developer Platform solution, to abstract the infrastructure complexities for developers, enabling developers to build and deliver microservices efficiently.

Success in this role requires balancing hands-on Java service maintenance with platform architecture, CI/CD pipeline design, and developer enablement.

A typical week as a Platform Engineer in Developer Experience team might involve:

• Maintaining Java services owned by the Developer Experience team., * Developer Support: participate in the rota to provide support to developers for platform related issues in areas that Developer Experience owns. We do a weekly review and brainstorm ways of reducing the number of requests through automation and building auditable self-service tooling, documentation and training.

• Experience with modern Java: to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.

• Experience with test frameworks: JUnit and Mockito is essential.

• Debugging skills : to be able to identify and resolve issues in complex systems.

• Gradle Fundamentals: to write and maintain complex Gradle build files.

• Dependency Management : to understand different dependency configurations and resolving conflicts.

• Multi-Project Builds : to be able to set up and manage multi-project builds in Gradle

• Performance Optimization : a good understanding of Gradle builds speed optimisations and efficiency is a big plus.

• Springboot: knowledge for the purpose of library upgrades.

• Custom Gradle plugin : to be able to create custom Gradle tasks to automate build processes, retrieve properties, code generation, or other development tasks.

• S ecurity: Experience working within an SDLC framework (ISO 27002:2022), understanding of SALSA and SBOMs.

We're looking for someone who:

• Always pushes for continuous improvement and has strong attention to detail.

• Positive outlook, good people and communication skills.

Has an automation mindset. *

Relevant Technology we use:

• Google Cloud Platform

• Google Kubernetes Engine with Anthos Service Mesh

• Confluent Cloud

• Incident.io

• Gitlab

• Jira, Confluence, Slack, Teams

• Elastic APM, Kibana

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

• 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