Squad Lead, PHP

**Reapit - Who are we?**

Reapit is the original, end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies of all sizes. We’ve been helping sales and lettings agents to build relationships and grow their businesses for more than 25 years. Our technology connects property professionals in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand with buyers, sellers, tenants and landlords to power the relationships that change lives.

In Australia, Reapit stands as the preferred technology choice among the nation's leading estate agents and agencies. Tailored to the unique demands of the Australian property market, Reapit provides successful leaders with unparalleled tools across sales, property management, client relations, and data analytics, reinforcing their position at the pinnacle of real estate excellence.

**What you’ll be doing**

Reporting to the Engineering Manager you’ll be involved in:

- Delivering and maintaining products built using PHP,.NET & ReactJS through an agile development process.
- Leading a development squad including PHP developers and a QA engineer - providing developers with personal development, coaching/mentoring and operational support, and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Cross-skilling PHP developers in.NET to support the migration of our core product from PHP to.NET.
- Working with Product Owners & Managers to understand business requirements, translate these into product requirements, prioritise and schedule; then manage the flow of work through the development team, performing hands-on development duties as required.
- Ensuring the development squad produces high quality output, meeting the company’s coding standards.

In this capacity, your responsibilities will include:

- Collaborate with the Product department to understand requirements, plan and prioritise work.
- Collaborate with the Architecture and DevOps teams to design and deploy new functionality/services.
- Maintain accountability for the quality and timely delivery of team output, co-ordinate team efforts and manage the end-to-end SDLC including project planning, resource allocation, and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Ensure development work is planned and implemented with consideration to security, performance, maintainability, quality, and cost-optimisation.
- Contribute directly to development and ongoing maintenance of products & services.
- Be a primary participant in the code review process and drive team participation as a means of building knowledge and improving overall code quality.
- Contribute to and uphold coding and documentation standards.
- Lead/facilitate and ensure effectiveness of Agile development processes, driving a culture of continuous improvement.
- Conduct advanced technical investigations and scoping and coach team members to perform similar duties.
- Contribute to technical decision making; facilitate technical discussions and drive team members to contribute meaningfully.
- Take ownership of incidents and team issues, and drive decisions on appropriate course of action.
- Ensure that updates on active incidents are communicated well to stakeholders and that RCA processes are conducted in a blameless, collaborative way, with positive material outcomes.
- Provide mentoring to team members and support their technical and personal development; conduct one-to-ones, performance assessments, reward and career conversations.
- Continuously assess risks, monitor changes and ensure mínimal disruption.
- Lead the team in analysis of technical requirements, research and estimation of development effort, ensuring continuous improvement in estimation accuracy and overall team predictability.
- Identify performance, maintainability, internal efficiency and cost-optimisation improvements.
- Maintain a thorough and up to date knowledge of technologies available.

**Who we’re looking for**

At Reapit, we prioritise hiring individuals who share our values and possess the right attitudes and behaviours for success. Whilst some of the listed requirements may be important, don’t worry if you don’t meet all of them, we’d still like to hear from you.
- 5+ years commercial experience in software development, including exposure to both PHP and.NET.
- A commitment to quality and software engineering best practices, and a desire to act as a driver of high standards within development teams.
- Excellent communication, leadership and decision-making skills with a strong operations mindset.
- Highly experienced in writing SQL queries and managing SQL databases.
- Demonstrable understanding of SOLID design principles.
- Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.
- Understanding of distributed systems (ideally microservices & event-based architecture).
- Strong understanding of web APIs and REST best practices
- Exposure to public cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and familiarity with IaC tooling such as Terraform, Cloudformation, CDK.
- Deep u