Engineering Manager

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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.

Role: Engineering Manager

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. You’ll be responsible for building 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 people leaders, delivery enablers, engineering advocates, and strategic partners to Product Managers.

You’ll work collaboratively to ensure teams focus on the right problems, operate sustainably and inclusively, and have a big impact on our organisation.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 its systems in production.

• 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.

• Build a strong partnership with your PM, acting as a united leadership pair.
• 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.

• 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.

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.

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 ensuring we are solving the right problems…