- Permanent role based in Melbourne
- Join REA’s New Homes Engage team to shape high-impact property experiences used by customers across realestate.com.au and Ignite.
We're REA
With bold and ambitious goals, REA Group is changing the way the world experiences property. No matter where you're at on your property journey, we're here to help with every step - whether that's finding or financing your next home.
Our people are the key to our success. At the heart of everything we do, is a thriving culture centred around high performance and care. We are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact. As such, we’re proud to have been named in Australia’s “Top 5” Best Workplaces two years in a row, as well as being recognised as a Best Workplace for Women.
Where the team fits in
New Homes Engage is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build and evolve the products, platforms and services that power New Homes experiences across realestate.com.au and Ignite. This role spans customer-facing experiences, backend services and operational ownership across areas such as project profiles, builder profiles and developer listing workflows.
You’ll work in a multi-language engineering environment spanning Scala, TypeScript, JavaScript and Ruby, and you’ll contribute across solution design, delivery, system quality, production support, mentoring and technical leadership.
What the role is all about
The Senior Software Engineer supports the Engage team in the following ways:
- Focusing on a wide range of technologies including Scala, TypeScript, Javascript and Ruby
- Contributing to the overall technical solution design
- Strengthen system quality through testing, observability, monitoring, release confidence and continuous improvement
- Managing and maintaining existing systems in line with our product custodianship strategy
- Participating in engineering practices that produce testable, maintainable products to be proud of
- Knowledge sharing & mentoring other developers within the team and the wider REA community
Who we’re looking for
- Approximately 5 years of experience building reliable, scalable, complex web apps
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience delivering production systems end to end
- Experience working across web applications, APIs and distributed systems
- Confidence contributing to solution design, technical trade-offs and system evolution
- A pragmatic approach to improving legacy systems while still delivering customer value
- A strong sense of ownership for product quality, reliability and maintainability
- The ability to mentor others and lead through influence, collaboration and sound engineering judgement
- Open to learning other languages and frameworks that support our technical direction
- Understanding of software infrastructure, deployment practices and CI/CD
The REA experience
The physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our people is something we’ll never stop caring about. This is a place to learn and grow.
Some of our Perks & Benefits include:
- A hybrid and flexible approach to working
- Flexible leave options including, birthday leave and purchase additional leave
- Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers
- Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity
- Hackdays so you can bring your big ideas to life
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.
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