Rightmove Careers - Engineering Manager - Customer
Requirements
• 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 the stakes are high or ambiguity is present. • A genuine interest in growing others, including coaching, feedback, and performance development. • If you’re passionate about creating the conditions for great engineering and excited about building impactful teams that solve real problems, we’d love to hear from you. • Our approach to AI
Responsibilities
• 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 that 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 (including process, quality, and velocity). • 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.
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 to give back, and holiday buy schemes. • 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. • We offer hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days in the office. For our roles, such as Field or Home-based positions, different working arrangements apply - full details will be shared during the recruitment process.
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