Technical Lead

• Lead a team of innovative and passionate engineers within our Proptrack business unit
• Sustainability - We are certified carbon neutral and committed to reducing our impact on the environment.

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 Technical Lead role sits within Proptrack. PropTrack provides property data and technical platform solutions to customers in the financial and government sectors. The Engineering Team within PropTrack works together to deliver solutions to our internal and external customers. It is the core delivery centre for developing solutions to meet customer priorities and align with PropTrack's technology strategy.

What the role is all about

As a Technical Lead you will be responsible for the architecture and design of our systems. In collaboration with other technical leaders across the business you will provide input into the technical vision of REA and apply it to the sites and products in your area. You will combine your extensive technical experience with your understanding of the business to guide your teams through all aspects of software delivery.

While the focus of this role is on architecture and leadership, you will remain hands on and work with teams to develop software solutions using agile software development practices as required. You will champion our technical practices to ensure a high-quality outcome for our business. You will share responsibility for the provisioning, deployment, and operational support of the software your team builds.

You will form a part of the leadership team for your area and will be jointly accountable for the health, happiness, and performance of your team(s). You will contribute positively to the culture of the team, build engagement and morale, be involved in recruiting, set structure and processes, and generally help build and maintain a high performing team(s). You will use your skills and experience to mentor more junior team members.

Technical Leads support their team in the following ways:

• Contributing to the overall technical direction in collaboration with other senior technical leaders.
• Providing technical direction to your team(s).
• Working with stakeholders to design high quality solutions that meet the needs of our users.
• Leading engineering teams in the implementation of major products.
• Maintaining existing products, including bug fixes and “Business As Usual” feature enhancements
• Supporting production systems.
• Contributing to the REA knowledge base through blog posts, brown-bag sessions and coaching less experienced members of the team.
• Work closely with the PropTrack Architect and Technical Leads to ensure the PropTrack platforms have a clear and consistent architecture and software design across the web and API experiences we support across PropTrack.
• You will be the people manager for 1-3 other technical team members. You will be responsible for guiding and developing their career pathways, giving them timely feedback, and assessing their performance

Who we’re looking for

• 8+ years’ experience working in large-scale software development.
• 2+ years’ experience leading engineering teams.
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or similar highly desirable.
• Experience working with a product-based agile operating model.
• Experience in banking and financial services advantageous.
• Work productively and effectively in a fast paced and agile environment.
• Well-rounded experience in web and API development, solution design and architectures, synchronous and asynchronous integration architectures, etc.
• Solid understanding of modern cloud engineering practices.

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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