Senior React Developer

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 Squad Lead you'll be involved in:

• Delivering and maintaining products built using React through an agile development process.
• Translating product requirements into technical implementation steps.
• Performing hands-on development work, documentation, testing and deployment.
• Coaching and mentoring junior developers.
• Troubleshooting incidents and participating in RCA processes

In this capacity, your responsibilities will include:

• Contribute directly to development and ongoing maintenance of products & services, including implementation, testing, documentation, deployment, and responding to incidents.
• Participate in the code review process as a means of building knowledge within the development team and improving overall code quality.
• Participate in and ensure effectiveness of Agile development processes; contribute to continuous improvement.
• Conduct technical investigations and scoping.
• Contribute to technical decision making.
• Participate in incident management, helping to ensure timely resolution, regular communication with stakeholders, quality reporting, and effective root cause analysis.
• Provide mentoring to junior/intermediate team members and support their technical and personal development.
• Conduct analysis of technical requirements, research and estimation of development effort
• 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 front-end (Javascript/Typescript/React) software development.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrable understanding of SOLID design principles.
• Experience building web applications with React
• Experience with testing methodologies e.g. unit/integration/E2E testing, mocking, shift-left.
• Deep understanding of modern software design practices
• Strong technical skills, both functional and non-functional, manual and automation, in a continuous delivery environment.
• Strong experience translating business requirements into technical requirements.
• Experience with the Atlassian products (Confluence, Jira) and GitHub
• Ability to keep up with development trends and identify practical uses for new technologies.
• Ability to leverage existing documentation and team knowledge of tech stack to implement changes appropriately.
• Able to work methodically to tight deadlines and handle multiple tasks with meticulous attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience.
• Mature and professional; Self-motivated, proactive, enthusiastic and assertive.
• Desirable experience includes: experience in B2B or CRM product development within the real estate industries, experience working with distributed teams including offshore resources.

What your impact and success looks like

We expect your success and impact in the early stages of your career with us to look something like this:

Within 1 month:

• You will be making a positive contribution on smaller work items to introduce you to the technology stack.
• You will participate in planning and estimation sessions, technical scoping exercises, and code reviews from day one, to help understand both the domain and the code, and provide your own feedback from your prior experience

Within 3 months:

• You will feel comfortable with the basics of the domain and Reapit's products & services.
• You will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the core areas of the technology stack.
• You will be independently contributing new ideas to product and processes.
• You will be closely involved in incident response processes.
• You will be mentoring engineers and actively improving the team's software design & code quality.

Within 6 months:

• You will be able to work independently due to your continually growing understanding of our products and solutions.
• Your contributions will be helping to shape the backlog and future direction of the products.
• You will be taking ownership of complex projects to run with a high level of autonomy.
• You will be participating in technical planning and design conversations.
• You will be helping to ensure quality and use of best practices within the team, from requirements gathering & analysis, through solutions design, documentation, implementation, and testing

We operate a Flexible Working Policy and you are free to determine where you work from, be that from home or in the Sydney or Brisbane offices, and how often but we certainly recommend a balance

Don't tick all the boxes? Neither do we

We care about our industry and want it to become a more inclusive and diverse place to work. So, we're driven by hiring not only by experience and relevance for the role but by sharing our values and the right attitudes and behaviours for success. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all. We feel we have an empowering environment where everyone is supported and respected, and we want you to feel this too. We welcome new ideas, thinking and approaches, whilst listening to all
our employees.

"We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant."