Joshua Franks
Senior Software Engineer II at Rightmove
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoshua Franks is a Senior Software Engineer II with eight years' experience building and leading web engineering teams across the UK, now at Rightmove following Rightmove's acquisition of HomeViews. He specialises in PHP (Laravel) and modern JavaScript (Vue, React) and prefers Tailwind for CSS, combining hands-on API and front-end work with strong backend architecture. Joshua has repeatedly stepped into leadership roles—hiring, mentoring, and shaping delivery processes—to improve velocity, quality, and incident response across products. At mettle.io he drove large migrations, fintech integrations and grew a test suite from zero to over 2,100 tests, demonstrating a pragmatic commitment to reliability. He thrives on learning new technologies and reducing complexity, often balancing product-facing responsibilities (mobile API lead) with operational excellence. Based in St Albans, he blends craft-focused engineering with measurable team outcomes and a knack for turning legacy systems into scalable platforms.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The Chauncy School
Github Skills (31)
sendgrid10
flarum10
marketing-automation10
email-validation10
email-marketing10
mailer10
html-email10
transactional-emails10
marketing-tools9
marketing9
django9
newsletter9
php9
laravel7
vue-modal6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joshuafranks/website
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:50 pushes, 12 branches in 10 days
laravelanniversarylarahackas-built
mettle/laracatch-client
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Laracatch is a customizable error page for applications running on Laravel 5.5 and higher.
Contributions:5 releases, 12 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 days
error-pagephpcustomizablelaravel-5laravel
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