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About the Role
Shape the future of digital advertising at REA by solving high-scale AdTech challenges that reach millions of property seekers while inspiring the engineers around you.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery in partnership with Engineers, Product, Sales, Ad Operations and AdTech Specialists.
- Write well-designed code, implementing robust backend solutions including APIs, data pipelines, and event-driven systems.
- Take on complex research and proof of concept work, rapidly prototyping solutions and assessing feasibility.
- Support the Engineering Manager in designing solutions for complex problems.
- Coach and mentor engineers and AdTech Specialists through pairing, code reviews, and direct guidance.
- Continually grow technical competency by staying across developments in the AdTech industry and the broader engineering community.
- Contribute positively to team culture, morale, and recruitment.
- Write, test, and document code according to REA Engineering standards and practices.
- Lead or significantly contribute to strategically important AdTech initiatives.
- Solve deep, complex technical problems in ways that enable other team members to learn and extend.
- Support the Engineering Manager in setting technical direction, engineering practices, and upskilling the team's capabilities.
- Connect with engineers across the organisation to align solution architecture with broader tech strategy.
- Contribute to the wider REA engineering community through tech guilds and engineering standards.
- Work with stakeholders to design high-quality solutions that balance options, effort, and quality.
- Maintain existing products and support production systems, including the Day Pager Escalation roster.
- Support production systems, including being part of the Day Pager roster.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in complex, high-scale systems.
- Experience in AdTech, digital advertising, or media technology is highly regarded but not essential.
- Proven track record of building and operating scalable, reliable systems in production.
- Deeply embodies the "you build it, you run it" philosophy.
- Proven experience leading the resolution of high-impact operational incidents.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical solutions and strategy to both non-technical leaders and fellow engineers.
- Leadership and mentoring skills with a passion for developing talent and building inclusive, high-performing teams.
- Experience leading teams to produce high-quality solutions, with a track record of setting high standards for engineering quality, testing, observability, and monitoring.
Skills
- API development (REST and GraphQL)
- Distributed event-driven systems architectures
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP)
- Modern software development practices: test-driven development (TDD), micro-services architecture, and continuous delivery
- Advanced back-end skills
- Genuine full stack capability
- Designing high-performance systems at scale
- Developing long-term architecture strategies
- Working with modern databases (relational, NoSQL, BigQuery)
- Message queues
- CI/CD pipelines
Location
- Melbourne
- Sydney
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
- Flexible
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering
Benefits
- 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
- Volunteering leave
- Community grants
- Matched payroll giving
- Hackdays
About the Company
- With bold and ambitious goals, REA Group is changing the way the world experiences property.
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.