Lead Developer

Lead Developer

• Make an impact leading a collaborative, supportive team!
• Work across multiple leading property brands impacting millions of users!
• Permanent full time 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 position sits in the Identity squad of the Launchpad Portfolio within the Global Technology Group. The Launchpad tribe within the Global Technology Group is responsible for making it easy for our product teams to build, run and operate their software across the company. We work on a wide range of technical products, such as Cloud automation, CI/CD pipelines, networking, security, monitoring, deployment, authentication and authorisation. We consult with our many product delivery teams to help them bring their products to life.

We’re a group of passionate, multi-disciplinary engineers that use software to solve system engineering problems at massive scale. We think big – and need to. We apply product-thinking and practice to tech-heavy domains to build the best platforms for our internal teams.

What the role is all about

As a Lead Developer in the Identity squad, you will be responsible for critical systems that support some REA-wide platform products, including Locke for user authentication, Turnstile for API authorization, and MachineLocke for service authentication.

The Lead Developer supports their team in the following ways:

• Providing technical team leadership for a team of highly capable engineers
• Designing, coding, testing, deploying, and maintaining software products using a variety of technologies and platforms
• Supporting production systems
• Leading the implementation of major products
• Providing technical mentoring and guidance to less experienced members of the team
• Helping define and manage roadmaps (with the DL and PM)
• Co-ordinating and planning the technical activities required to deliver team outcomes
• Collaborating with other teams to deliver cross-squad initiatives, managing dependencies across multiple teams and systems, and understanding the specific impact of changes on our team.
• Supporting discovery activities (with designers, PMs, UX research)
• Working with other squads to support and drive federation work.
• Ensuring technical practices are adhered to
• Reviewing and giving feedback on PRs and engineering docs.
• In the Identity team, we love RFCs. You will be comfortable reading, understanding, and referring to Internet standards

Who we’re looking for

• Someone with a few runs on the board – you will likely have 5+ years of experience working in software development
• Expert skills in our programming languages – Typescript / React
• Expert skills in building full stack web products using open source and cloud technologies.
• Experience with Auth0 is highly desirable.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
• Experience building software with AWS technologies, specifically Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway and CloudFormation.
• Expert skills in modern software development techniques such as object orientation, test driven development, micro-services and continuous delivery.
• Advanced skills in implementing solutions that scale and perform for millions of users.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Able to ensure the operational stability and optimal performance of infrastructure and platform systems.
• Experience or desire to lead engineering teams in a collaborative team environment.
• Experience writing native mobile apps is also a plus but not required.

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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