Engineering Manager

Make an impact leading a collaborative, supportive team in an exciting space
- Work across multiple leading property brands impacting millions of users
- Permanent full time role based in Richmond

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

The role sits within the AI Enrichment squad in Product & Audience. The team builds AI capabilities that help REA understand and improve property listings at scale. It has a strong history of delivering impactful solutions, including deep learning models that interpret listing descriptions and photos. AI Enrichment works on a wide range of AI problems, using computer vision models like CNNs and Vision Transformers to identify features in property images, and building scoring models to assess listing quality. The team also creates models that optimise how listings are presented based on context. It explores generative AI to extract insights and summaries from listing content. All solutions are designed to handle large-scale data and run efficiently in production.

What the role is all about
- Guide and execute the AI/ML technical strategy and roadmap for data enrichment (e.g. photo classification, attribute extraction, listing summarisation).
- Lead solution design, architecture, and delivery across the ML lifecycle from data ingestion and labelling to deployment and monitoring.
- Represent the team’s technical perspective in shaping product strategy, vision, and OKRs.
- Maintain system health, reliability, and engineering compliance.
- Oversee operations for team-owned systems, supporting REA’s “You Own It, You Run It” model, including incident management and support rosters.
- Drive product discovery through technical input and feasibility assessments.
- Champion engineering excellence through clean code, design patterns, TDD, and automation.
- Ensure adoption of REA platforms, standards, and alignment with broader tech strategy.
- Contribute to technical aspects of business cases (e.g. GIFs), including AI/ML tooling and system evolution.
- Provide technical oversight through reviewing mission-critical PRs, IPRs, and pairing where needed.
- Guide and manage individual contributors to foster career development and team cohesion, typically you will have 4-8 engineers in your team as your direct reports.
- team members. This includes the onboarding and management of contingent workers.
- Partner with HR in managing performance and providing coaching and development feedback.
- Promote team engagement and oversee the well-being and health of the team.
- Develop and manage your squads, focusing on team development and performance improvement.
- Deliver the product roadmap, tracking and communicating progress.
- Ensure team effectiveness, overseeing team ceremonies & using standard delivery metrics to inform continuous improvement.

Who we’re looking for
- You have 7-10 years of experience in the AI/ML field, with a strong track record of delivering end-to-end AI solutions into production.
- Your deep technical expertise spans classic machine learning, deep learning, transformers, Gen AI, and computer vision.
- You’ve worked at scale in the cloud, operated with large volumes of data (text, documents, images), and are highly proficient in Python, including libraries like PyTorch.
- You lead by example, inspiring and empowering your team to achieve engineering excellence. You foster a high-performing environment through clear direction, mentoring, and a focus on best practices in software and machine learning development.
- You design robust, scalable solutions and ensure reliable operations of complex production systems.
- You thrive in cross-functional collaboration, balancing strategic objectives with hands-on technical leadership.
- Your ability to prioritise, drive continuous improvement, and maintain high engineering standards underpins your success. You promote a culture of innovation, ownership, and learning, always aiming to push boundaries and deliver meaningful impact.

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 se