Lead Engineer - Full Stack [T500-19381]

About REA Group :

In 1995, in a garage in Melbourne, Australia, REA Group was born from a simple question : “Can we change the way the world experiences property?"

Could we? Yes. Are we done? Never.

Fast forward 30 years, REA Group is a market leader in online real estate in three continents and continuing to grow rapidly across the globe. The secret to our growth is staying true to that ‘day one’ mindset; the hunger to innovate, the ambition to change the world, and the curiosity to reimagine the future.

Our new Tech Center in Cyber City is dedicated to accelerating REA Group’s global technology delivery through relentless innovation. We’re looking for the best technologists, inventors and leaders in India to join us on this exciting new journey. If you’re excited by the prospect of creating something magical from scratch, then read on.

Lead Engineer – Full Stack

What the role is all about :

We're seeking a Lead Engineer (6-9 years’ experience) who will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of REA's cutting-edge products. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across the globe, to craft, build, and enhance solutions aimed at delivering outstanding user experiences.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 Lead Engineer 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. This is your chance to work on impactful projects that drive customer satisfaction and company growth. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies alongside talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a dynamic and collaborative environment.

While no two days are likely to be the same, your typical responsibilities will include :

• Work closely with product and design teams to translate user needs into technical specifications, ensuring solutions meet user requirements.
• 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.
• Collaborate closely with a variety of teammates to build features, brainstorm design concepts, and develop interactive prototypes.
• Work within value-driven teams to craft innovative customer experiences.
• Foster a well-connected and knowledgeable team by sharing knowledge through sessions, mentoring other team members, and contributing to the technical roadmap.
• Work towards shared team goals and contribute to successful project delivery.
• Collaborate with team leads to define, advocate and embody best practices within the team like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming, and design patterns.
• Actively participate in pairing, code reviews, unit testing, and secure deployments to deliver secure and quality code.
• Stay updated on the latest web development trends and apply them to solve complex challenges.
• Working with stakeholders to design high quality solutions that meet the needs of our users, including vendor platforms
• Take ownership and accountability of deliverables.
• Mentor other team members.

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The values we live by :

Our values are at the core of how we operate, treat each other, and make decisions. We believe that how we work is equally important as what we do to achieve our goals. This commitment is at the heart of everything we do, from the way we interact with colleagues to the way we serve our customers and communities.

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.

REA Group in India :

You might already recognize our logo. The REA brand does have an existing presence in India. In fact, we set up our new tech hub in Gurugram to be their neighbours!

REA Group holds a controlling interest in REA India Pte. Ltd., operator of established brands Housing.com, Makaan.com and PropTiger.com, three of the country’s leading digital property marketplaces.

Through our close connection to REA India, we’ve seen first-hand the incredible talent the country has to offer, and the huge opportunity to expand our global workforce. Our Cyber City Tech Center is an extension of REA Group; a satellite office working directly with our Australia HQ on local projects and tech delivery.

All our brands, across the globe, connect regularly, learn from each other and collaborate on shared value initiatives.