Senior Developer
- Sustainability – We are certified carbon neutral and committed to reducing our impact on the environment.
- Charities – We have long-term partnerships with charities working to address homelessness.
We're REA
REA Group is not your average digital business. From humble beginnings in a garage in Melbourne’s east in 1995, we have grown into a leading global digital business, specialising in property. With bold and ambitious goals, we are 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 be 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 role sits in the Media Team, within the Advertising portfolio. The Media team helps consumers share, rent, buy, sell and enjoy property, by connecting them with all sorts of products and services to help them along their property journey. This includes finance products, utilities, home services, furnishings, automotive and many more innovative advertising, lead generation tools and extension products. The fast-growing Media business includes a cross-functional team from Product, IT, Sales, Marketing, PR and Communications, HR, Finance and Legal. We’re all about using digital solutions to make property and everything that supports consumers around property, simple, efficient and stress free.
The Senior Developer role has key strategic importance and visibility within the business. This is a unique role that will focus on delivering thought leadership in advertising technologies, designing innovative solutions, and helping teams leverage this to produce world class advertising products.
What the role is all about
- Thought leadership in buying ads, selling ads, and sharing data with advertising clients.
- Contributing to the overall technical solution design and product direction, working with Lead Developers and Tech Leads to ensure our solution is in line with our technical vision.
- Informing delivery planning and technical design by providing a balanced view of options, effort, and quality considerations.
- Working with the team leads to understand business priorities, express ideas and communicate technical options.
- Designing, coding, testing, and deploying new software products
- Being insight led and ready to pivot when needed
- Working in agile teams, where we rapidly adapt to the market and work widely with different product teams across REA.
- Proactively contributing to the continuous improvement of products, technology, process, and team development.
- Actively developing skills and experience through continual learning and evaluation.
- Working with stakeholders to design high quality solutions that meet the needs of our users, including vendor platforms
Who we’re looking for
- Someone with a few runs on the board
- Several years of experience working in full stack development
- Developed skills in programming languages and frameworks such as TypeScript, Node.js, and React
- Demonstrated experience working in Typescript, MySQL, Docker, Splunk, React and/or AWS services
- Experience working in Media/AdTech industry, with exposure to – Bidding solutions, DSPs, SSPs, Tag Management, CDPs, knowledge of targeting and creative setup used in media campaigns as well as privacy-enhancing technologies
- Developed skills in software development techniques and continuous delivery
- Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative environment
- Looks at tricky situations through a solutions-focused lens
- Work productively in a fast paced and agile environment
- Some exposure to event streaming technologies
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. We’re committed to your development – both professionally and personally. Your experience with us is something we take seriously.
We offer:
- A hybrid and flexible approach to working
- Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers
- Programs to support mental, emotional, financial and physical health & wellbeing
- Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity.
- Hack Days so you can bring your big ideas to life
- Performance recognition programs because hard work should never go unnoticed
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 – be it cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other identity or lived experience. We know diverse teams are critical to maintaining our success and driving new business opportunities. 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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