Your Move Jobs – Platforms Engineer IN Bristol, UK

Overview

Position Title:Platforms Engineer

Company:Rightmove

Location:Bristol, UK

Job Description:

The Platforms team plays a pivotal role in delivering the tools and application platforms that support all Rightmove product engineering teams. As part of the wider Product Development team, we recognise that to deliver the best products and features for our consumers and customers we need to work effectively as a healthy, high performing team.

Responsibilities:

• Working collaboratively to drive the strategy for the above key projects.
• Sharing design ideas within the Platforms team, leading individual projects and mentoring team members.
• Engaging with engineers to understand pain points or diagnose issues in production or development environments.
• Working with a logging pipeline capable of processing the large amount of data generated through the usage of our website and applications in order to fully observe and support the production environment .
• Building tooling to automate tedious tasks that improve engineering productivity.
• Improving the speed and safety of the deployment systems or optimising specific project build times.
• Developing and maintaining applications, frameworks and libraries used by product engineering teams to support cross-functional features, such as logging, feature switches, messaging and data access.
• Researching new technologies and best practices and sharing with the wider engineering community.

Requirements:

• Loves to automate and streamline anything and everything.
• Has strong problem-solving skills and takes the initiative when they spot an opportunity for improvement.
• Enjoys sharing their ideas with others and can clearly communicate complex technical concepts.
• Gets a kick when their projects lead to improved ways of working with latest technologies.
• Promotes TDD and always strives to deliver well-tested quality solutions.
• Asks questions and uses the experience of those around them.