Senior iOS Engineer

• Empower squads to work faster and operate autonomously through high leverage platform technology
• Join an organisation with a thriving culture centred around high performance and care

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

This role sits within the Native Capabilities team, part of the Listings, Visualisation & Content portfolio in the Consumer Product & Experience group. The portfolio focuses on all aspects of listings – their content, presentation, and the platform technology that enables scalable, high-quality experiences, primarily (but not exclusively) for the brand.

The Native Capabilities team's mission is to "Empower experience building squads to work faster and operate autonomously through high leverage platform technology". We do this by building and maintaining Nautilus Capabilities that app teams rely on to deliver features efficiently and consistently across platforms.

What the role is all about

• Contributing to technical discovery, design, implementation of different platform capabilities
• Provide support for teams that's using Nautilus in their experiences ( this includes bug fixing, migration, custodianship support and training)
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
• Support custodianship efforts that contribute to apps as part of Native platform
• Contribute to weekly release process as build Zar & regression testing support based on a roster
• Mentor and guide other engineers, contributing to a culture of technical excellence
• Learning and contributing to the tech community. We are constantly learning together, mentoring each other and striving to do things better
• Contribute to team agile ceremonies

Who we're looking for

• Expertise in native iOS development using Swift with a strong grasp of Apple's frameworks, runtime, and tooling beyond UI layers.
• Deep understanding of iOS application architecture patterns (modularisation, dependency management, thread safety, memory management, background execution).
• Added advantage – experience building internal platform capabilities such as authentication, logging, analytics, networking etc
• Comfortable in collaborating with Android engineers to deliver consistent capabilities
• Experience / interest in contributing to both iOS and Android
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)

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.

• 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.

Like a lot of companies, we have perps out there who like to 'phish' and have had a few recent instances of people pretending to be from REA and making offers of employment, on the condition that they transfer money for security checks.

Find out more about our tech teams who build products that millions of people use every day.

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