Associate Software Engineer

• 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

The role sits within the Modernisation tribe in the Customer Platforms & Services Portfolio of Customer Product & Experience group. The tribe manages the platform and data that powers the best customer experiences. This tribe is on a mission to provide a high quality 360-degree view of our customers to enable delivery of superior value to them. The tribe is accountable for different customer experiences like onboarding, contract management, managing agency and profile information while supporting sales flows. This tribe is a data owner and publishes foundational dataset making it easily accessible to draw insights and decisions.

They work within the Customer squad in the tribe and have a focus on how the individual customer and how its data is represented, accessed, and transformed. The Customer squad specifically look after key systems that support the management, evolution and publication of customer data and the relationships between our customers both individual and business. The Customer squad provide interfaces between the systems that support REA’s sales teams, customer marketing, customer operations and customer self-service systems such as Ignite.

What the role is all about

You will be responsible for contributing to the implementation and maintenance of our web applications and services across desktop and mobile devices, in a collaborative team environment.

As a member of a cross-functional team, you will develop skills to implement solutions using a variety of programming languages and technologies. Working is an agile software development environment you will learn test-driven development, continuous delivery, and pair programming. Day to day you’ll be:

• Contributing to the building of features for our systems and products
• Contributing to the maintenance our products, including bug fixes and enhancements.
• Building the skills needed to produce testable, maintainable products to be proud of

Who we’re looking for

• Developed skills in one or more programming languages (Typescript is our primary language)
• Experience with devops tools and techniques, particularly AWS and Docker
• Experience with building Web APIs, EDAs (Event Driven Architecture), Services
• Ability to work with modern web application frameworks, libraries, and design patterns.
• Ability to work on dynamic web-based products and services that scale to millions of users.
• Exposure to modern software development techniques such as test-driven development and continuous delivery.
• Able to communicate and collaborate in a team environment
• Work productively in a fast paced and agile environment.
• But we don't just look for someone based on their skills and expertise. It's our connection, acceptance and genuine care for each other that makes REA a great place to work.
• Contributing to showcases and encouraging other team members to present/participate;
• Facilitating and participating in team standups, retrospectives & iteration planning sessions
• Savvy minded and can think a little left of field / outside the box
• A strong and creative communicator
• Friendly, approachable and have good relationship management skills
• An avid supporter of our fully inclusive culture - we celebrate difference and ensure that everyone belongs

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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