Hybrid Working Pattern - 2 days per week from Tower Bridge office.

We’d like to hear from applicants with a range of experience in different technologies - please consider applying even if your experience doesn’t match our tech stack.

We want to make Houseful more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We’ll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you’ve spent unemployed. We’re reimagining the property industry for everyone, so we want our team to represent people from all walks of life. We actively welcome your application if your demographics or background are underrepresented in the technology or property sectors.

At Houseful, we’re here to help everyone make intelligent decisions about their home.

Do the best work of your life!

Houseful is home to trusted brands Zoopla, Alto, Hometrack, Calcasa, Mojo and Prime Location. Together we're creating the connections that power better property decisions, by unlocking the combined strength of software, data and insight.

We make moves with head and heart to achieve our big ambitions, and to drive progress in the property market. There’s never been a better time to join us.

Zoopla is one of the most recognised and loved UK consumer property brands. Our mission is to connect everyone to their home and give them better choices around it, whether moving, managing or financing. Over 60 million people visit Zoopla every month to access comprehensive data and information on every UK property, search over 500,000 homes for sale and rent, find the best agents and secure the latest mortgage deals. Zoopla is part of Houseful, the leader in residential property software, data and insight, and is sister brand to Hometrack, Alto and Mojo among others.

While we have a diverse set of technologies and services running here at Zoopla, we don't expect you to know all of them and would love to hear from you if you have experience in just a few of them.

As an Engineering Manager at Zoopla your day-to-day will include:

• Line managing, coaching and mentoring software engineers; focusing on their engagement, retention, growth and performance, while promoting a culture of innovation, teamwork and self-improvement
• Spending some of your time making technical contributions - this could include writing code, reviewing code, helping teams design architecture or removing blockers for development 
• On the frontend you’ll work with React, Next.js and TypeScript. On the backend it's mostly Node.js and GraphQL, written in TypeScript. We also have some Golang, Python and Perl.

Skills we’re looking for:

• A willingness to flex your skills across the various layers of the stack even if you don’t have experience in these specific technologies. If you’re interested in growing your full-stack development skill set, we’re happy to support you
• We aim to build products that delight users whilst being stable, performant, observable and supportable
• We’re looking for experience in designing and implementing technical strategies, while also looking after existing systems
• We’re looking for someone with a mindset for mentoring, teaching others and sharing your knowledge
  

Structure of our interview process - here’s what to expect:

• An initial chat with one of our talent team 
• 45 minute chat with one our engineering managers or principal engineers
• 1 hour technical interview with three engineers where you will share a project that you worked on
• 30 minute chat with our Head of Engineering or VP of Engineering
• All chats will be via google hangout

A little about us:

• We're serious about tech, but we don't take ourselves too seriously
• We strongly believe in the value of good decisions informed by data. We believe it is a primary differentiator in an increasingly crowded marketplace
• We move fast and do the important stuff first
• We frequently review our various business and engineering metrics, we are after trends not targets though
• We love to make quick decisions and learn from outcomes
• We want to build small, collaborative, cross-functional teams that push each other to create elegant, simple solutions to difficult customer problems

Benefits

• Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
• 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
• Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
• Festive Closure - business closed for period between Christmas and New Year
• Cycle to work and electric car schemes
• Free Calm App membership
• Enhanced Parental leave
• Fertility Treatment Financial Support
• Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
• Gym on-site in London – or membership in regional offices
• 7.5% pension contribution by the company
• Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
• Talent referral bonus up to £5K