Staff Engineer

• As a Staff Engineer in the Contracting Squad, spearhead innovation to transform commerce transactions and elevate platform excellence.

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

Join Commerce Platform tribe and help build and re-imagine the foundation of commerce transactions across all customer segments. You'll be working in Contracting squad, custodian of many critical systems powering the quote to purchase business flow. The squad plays an important role to ensure our success of platform strategy and realise our longer-term Advertising product vision.

As a Staff Engineer, you'll collaborate with a squad of experienced engineers to drive technical excellence and uplift platform maturity. You'll be developing and maintaining many platform services with robustness, agility, flexibility in mind. This is an opportunity for you to make a positive impact on one of the oldest platforms in the REA ecosystem.

What the role is all about

As a Staff Engineer, you are responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining technical solutions within your team. Your deep technical expertise is applied across systems that your team owns, using a variety of programming languages, databases, and cloud technologies.

You'll thrive in our platform-mindset engineering environment, where we strive to build high quality platform systems supporting across multiple markets. While delivery these high impact features, you will be providing mentoring support to the team of senior and mid-level engineers to ensure consistent and high performing engineering culture. Day to day you'll be doing:

• Develop, test, and document high-quality code adhering to REA's engineering standards.
• Lead strategic initiatives, applying deep expertise in core technical areas.
• Solve complex technical problems while mentoring team members and growing their skills.
• Collaborate with Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer to define technical direction.
• Design cross market technical solutions in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Maintain and enhance existing products, including bug fixes and feature development.
• Drive and deliver high impact technical improvements
• Provide production support, including participation in the on-call (e.g., Day Pager) rotation.
• Mentor team members, conduct code (PR) and technical design reviews

Who we're looking for

You're a seasoned software engineer who builds robust, maintainable, scalable systems. You're equally comfortable architecting solutions as you are writing clean, maintainable code. You've designed and deployed distributed systems, crafted APIs that scale, and implemented event-driven architectures that tames complex system. Whether optimizing performance bottlenecks or designing for future growth, you approach technical challenges with curiosity and precision.

You excel in collaborative, teams where clear communication and creative problem-solving drive results. You have strong sense of engineering culture to solve problems using innovative solution. Above all, you're someone who sees obstacles as opportunities and consistently delivers solutions that make a real impact. Key tech skills we're after:

• Ruby, TypeScript
• AWS
• Event-Driven Architecture with both hydro and AWS native messaging services SNS/SQS
• Front-End skills in React and TypeScript
• Database design and optimisation

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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