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

Do the best work of your life!

Houseful is home to trusted brands Zoopla, Alto, Hometrack, Calcasa, Mojo and Prime location.  Together were 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.

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Software Business Unit working on our market leading SaaS estate agency product Alto. This is a fast growing and exciting business going through change, where we have relationships with over 25,000 estate agent and developer customers across the UK.

Who you are

• Customer-Focused Builder: Eager to contribute to product development with a clear understanding of customer priorities.
• Innovative Thinker: Enthusiastic about exploring new ways of working and open to experimentation, such as our current venture into Shape Up methodology across our teams https://www.houseful.blog/posts/2023/shape-up-at-zoopla/
• Serverless Enthusiast: Fascinated by serverless technologies and their potential for accelerating development processes.
• Problem Solver: Prepared to tackle complex challenges lacking straightforward solutions.
• Open Collaborator: Comfortable sharing preliminary work, from early drafts to MVPs, welcoming feedback before final polish.

There’s always room to grow and learn with our roles so please don’t be put off if you don’t have all of these skills and experiences. It’s more important that you’re passionate about our mission to improve the home moving and owning experience for everyone.

What we are looking for

We are in search of a dynamic individual who is passionate about tackling engaging challenges and is adept at prioritising to focus on the most impactful tasks. Our ideal candidate is someone who is comfortable making strategic trade-offs to ensure that efforts are directed towards the most crucial projects. We operate in six-week cycles, maintaining fixed timelines with flexible scopes to adapt to the evolving needs of our projects

Tools and Technologies

Our technical environment is diverse and forward-thinking, utilising a range of tools and languages - you don’t have to have worked with these but should have an appetite to learn:

• Micro-frontends: We have a monorepo of apps written in React & Typescript which are independently deployed to Vercel
• Testing: Vitest runner which runs React Testing Library (unit) and Playwright (browser based)
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Design system: Well supported and contributed to internal design system sharing components between Zoopla, Alto & Hometrack
• Backend Development: The majority of our backend services are developed in C#, with Typescript being used for the development of newer services.
• Distributed Services: Our distributed services architecture includes AWS technologies such as SQS, Eventbridge, and Lambda, supporting scalable and resilient systems.

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.

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