Staff Engineer

• As a Staff Engineer you’ll get the opportunity to innovate and collaborate with a passionate team to drive impactful change in a rapidly evolving property industry.
• Permanent 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

This Staff Engineering role sits within our Advertising and Value part of the business. The role will sit in a team that believes in changing the way people experience property. They do this by connecting real estate agents with the largest property seeking audience in Australia. The team is responsible for driving sustainable growth in Residential’s core listing products and ensure we provide superior customer value on realestate.com.au

As a Staff Engineer, you'll collaborate with a dynamic squad to drive product excellence for connecting real estate agents with the largest property seeking audience in Australia. You'll balance delivering cutting-edge features with architecting robust, maintainable systems that are responsible for driving sustainable growth and ensure we provide superior customer value on realestate.com.au. This is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact on both product innovation and technical excellence in a rapidly evolving industry.

What the role is all about

As a Staff Engineer, you are responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining innovative 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.

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 Managers and Principal Engineers to define technical direction.
• Work with a team of experienced full stack engineers (Melbourne and Xi’An)
• Design high-quality, user-centric solutions in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Maintain and enhance existing products, including bug fixes and feature development.
• Provide production support, including participation in the business hours on-call (e.g., Day Pager) rotation.
• Mentor team members, conduct code (PR) and technical design reviews
• Proactively contributing to the continuous improvement of products, technology, process and team development
• Informing delivery planning and technical design by providing a balanced view of options, effort, and quality considerations

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for a senior to Staff Engineer (depending on the experience) who has a passion to learn new programming languages, driving technical design and analysis. Below are some of the attributes we are looking for in a candidate:

• Developed skills in building full-stack web products
• Developed skills in designing and building systems with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS EC2, Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, basic networking etc..)
• Developed skills in two or more programming languages (e.g.TypeScript/React/Kotlin/Java)
• Developed skills in modern software development techniques (e.g. functional programming, object-oriented programming, test-driven development and CI/CD)
• Experienced in agile environment and systems development life cycle
• Ability to effectively work in pair programming and independently
• Contributes to product discovery through technical design and feasibility assessments
• Able to collaborate with multiple stakeholders including other teams/tribes

And some bonus points (and these are also things you can gain from this role):

• Experience with functional programming
• Work in a collaborative team environment and exercise pair programming on daily basis.
• Able to provide business solutions with constrains/limits and adapt to changes
• Work productively within tight deadlines in an agile environment
• Experience working in a distributed team (e.g. remote team in China) is desirable
• Expertise in designing and building micro-services and distributed systems, (e.g. REST API, GraphQL, queue-based, event driven architecture with Kafka or SQS) with good performance and adequate security
• Knowledgeable in building data pipeline with Airflow Breeze, Google BigQuery, Relational Databases
• Able to provide technical mentorship to other Engineers in the team

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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