Rightmove is so much more than just a property portal. We provide a huge range of services to estate agents, new home developers, mortgage lenders, surveyors and more. Everything is delivered either via an API, mobile app or web interface. We have around 160 microservices, a small amount of our original monolith and many other…
Since switching from a career in marketing to software engineering, lots of people have reached out, asking about my experience. I thought it might be good to share my story, so in this blog post I’ll talk about why and how I made this change, the challenges and rewards, and hopefully provide an insight into…
What is 10% time? At Rightmove, all engineers are able to make use of 10% of their time to work on personal development, which can involve learning about new technologies or working on a side project. This is a great way to explore new technologies that you may not get to use in your day-to-day…
If they say a week is a long time in politics, 17 years in tech must be an eternity (or an epoch if you are in *nix land). After 17 years at Rightmove working with all the great teams here, I’m preparing to hang up my gloves/spurs/mouse. I’ve had a few moments to drift into…
