Engineering Manager [T500-21949]

Engineering Manager 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 Centre 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.

What the role is all about: We're seeking an experienced Engineering Manager (9-14 years’ experience) who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys being hands-on tackling technical challenges and leading teams to deliver innovative solutions. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across the globe, leading the design, development, and optimization of features to ensure high-quality, scalable solutions that deliver exceptional user experiences. You’ll be accountable for the systems and applications your squad owns, end-to-end, covering reliability, cost, risk, and security, and for integrating system health work into delivery. This is your chance to work on impactful projects that drive customer satisfaction and company growth. You'll work 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: Collaborate with product and design teams to transform user needs into technical specifications. Contribute to REA's technical strategy and roadmap, aligning with business goals and stakeholders. Manage project stream, aligning dependencies for business success. Design solutions that will solve customer problems. Oversee and take part in the entire lifecycle of high-quality, scalable web applications from ideation to evolution in production and everything in between. Be accountable for squad-level solution design and ADRs, escalate cross-squad/architectural decisions, and align to tech strategy. Define, advocate and exemplify best practices within the team like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming, and design patterns.

Own custodianship of defined systems: Operate in production with safe deployments, support/on-call, and incident readiness. Meet System Health Review cadence and deliver improvement plans; track improvement items alongside product work. Demonstrate and ensure code quality and security through activities like pairing, code reviews, unit testing, and secure deployments.

Foster team development and growth of technical expertise through: Sharing knowledge through sessions and mentoring other developers. Building technical capability. Sharing performance and development feedback. Provide a safe space for continuous improvement through transparent feedback. Cultivate a culture of innovation, driving continuous improvement across products, technology, processes, and team development. Proactively contribute to the improvement of products, technology, processes, and team development. Embrace continuous learning, leveraging latest web development trends to solve complex challenges. Collaborate with delivery lead on delivery planning and technical design by providing a balanced view of options, effort, and quality considerations. Serve as the lead for squad team members, providing guidance, support, and leadership.

Who we’re looking for: An experienced engineer (9-14 years’ experience), who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys being hands-on tackling technical challenges and leading teams to deliver innovative solutions. Proven people leadership and mentoring experience Well-versed in native mobile development with Kotlin, Java, iOS or Swift Has led development teams using Agile, Lean and/or iterative releasing Knowledge of delivery approaches such as TDD, CI/CD and infrastructure automation. Demonstrates an ability to clearly describe why an architectural approach is favoured over another option. Advocate for code quality and security. Lead code reviews, unit testing, and deployments to ensure users trust the reliability and security of the code. Approaches problems with a solutions-oriented mindset and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Possesses communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams. Effectively communicate complex solutions to audiences with varying technical backgrounds, fostering consensus and collaboration. Willingness to learn new and complex technologies, and ability to share knowledge with the team. Hands-on experience with cloud-based technologies such as AWS Expertise in developing and integrating APIs, ensuring scalability and performance. Experience with DevOps practices and tools, such as Docker and CI/CD. Ability to work collaboratively and autonomously in a fast-paced environment.

Ability to thrive in a federated model with global platforms and teams to: Follow platform contribution patterns and shared experimentation/SEO/analytics conventions. Align collaboration and delivery processes to work effectively with teams in multiple time zones.

Bonus points for: Knowledge of full stack development using Node JS and React Knowledge of Splunk, PagerDuty and NewRelic platforms Microservice architecture Experience in using and managing Cloud infrastructure in AWS

What we offer: A hybrid and flexible approach to working. Transport options to help you get to and from work, including home pick-up and drop-off. Meals provided on site in our office. Flexible leave options including parental leave, family care leave and celebration leave. Insurances for you and your immediate family members. Programs to support mental, emotional, financial and physical health & wellbeing. Continuous learning and development opportunities to further your technical expertise.

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 e?ective 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 recognise 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.