Senior Engineer - Mobile (Android)

• 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

The Senior Engineer -Mobile (Android) role sits within the Listing Foundations squad, a key part of the Listing, Visualisation & Content business unit. The Listing Foundations squad is the team supporting and evolving the core systems that power property detail pages, search results, and listing content for millions of Australians every month. We keep these systems fast, reliable, and ready for innovation, enabling REA to deliver new features and high quality user experiences at scale.

What the role is all about

As a Senior Engineer in the Listing Foundations team, you’ll join a cross‑functional, multi‑disciplined squad to deliver user‑facing experiences and solve real needs for millions of users. Our systems operate at massive scale, supporting some of the most heavily used features on realestate.com.au, and require solving complex integration challenges across multiple platforms. You’ll be involved in the full development lifecycle: implementing features, building systems, resolving issues, and maintaining services, with the guidance and support of your team. Your technical skills in mobile development with a speciality in Android will be essential for delivering robust, maintainable, and performant code. You’ll have a solid understanding of mobile development principles, API integration, and performance optimisation. You’ll also have the opportunity to grow your skills by working outside your core mobile expertise—whether that’s contributing to backend APIs, cloud services, or automation pipelines—as you help the team deliver end-to-end solutions. You’ll contribute to and lead technical discussions and ongoing improvements to our experiences, striving for high quality, maintainable solutions You’re expected to keep learning by following technical trends and best practices, positively influencing team culture, and helping build collaborative, high-performing squads.

What you’ll be doing

• Write, test, and document high-quality code aligned with REA Engineering standards and practices.
• Contributing to initiatives with a strategic focus and leading epics.
• Apply engineering skills to design and implement well-crafted, scalable solutions.
• Solving complex technical problems in ways that enable other team members to learn and extend.
• Supporting the Engineering Manager in setting the technical direction and practices and upskilling the team’s capabilities.
• Connecting with engineers across the portfolio facing similar technical challenges to connect solution architecture with broader tech strategy.
• Contribute to squad ways of working and help foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning through coaching and mentoring others.
• Work closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to design and build solutions serving user needs, advising on feasibility and risk.
• Own and enhance existing products and services, including bug fixes, feature improvements and reduction in technical debt.
• Supporting production systems, including being part of the day pager on call roster.

Who we’re looking for

• Extensive experience in mobile software development, with deep expertise in Kotlin.
• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable mobile applications, APIs, and supporting services.
• While mobile is your core strength, you have the flexibility to work across the stack when needed, supporting integrations, backend services, and delivery pipelines.
• Experience delivering significant product features end-to-end—from shaping technical requirements through deployment and ongoing optimisation.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to work effectively with cross-functional teams and translate complex technical concepts into clear plans.
• Comfortable working in an agile, fast-paced environment, with a focus on quality, maintainability, and user experience.
• Track record of diagnosing and resolving critical production issues swiftly and effectively.
• Commitment to the “you build it, you run it” philosophy—owning code from development into production and ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of your apps.
• Practical experience integrating with and supporting systems in AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of designing and implementing solutions that scale for large, active user bases.
• Ability to participate in shaping longer-term mobile architecture and technical direction of the team, in partnership with senior peers and leadership.

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 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.

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