Staff Software Engineer

Writing, testing, and documenting code according to REA Engineering standards and practices.

Leading or significantly contributing to strategically important AdTech initiatives, across ad serving, programmatic infrastructure, identity, and audience platforms.

Solving deep, complex technical problems in ways that enable other team members to learn and extend — including owning the most challenging performance, integration, and architecture challenges in the squad.

Coaching and mentoring engineers through code reviews, pairing, and direct guidance to foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Supporting the Engineering Manager in setting technical direction, engineering practices, and upskilling the team's capabilities.

Connecting with engineers across the organisation to align solution architecture with broader tech strategy. Contributing to the wider REA engineering community through tech guilds and engineering standards.

Working with stakeholders to design high-quality solutions that balance options, effort, and quality — while maintaining existing products and supporting production systems, including the Day Pager Escalation roster.

Supporting production systems, including being part of the Day Pager roster.

10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in complex, high-scale systems

Experience in AdTech, digital advertising, or media technology is highly regarded but not essential.

Expert skills in API development (REST and GraphQL), distributed event-driven systems architectures, and cloud infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP). A proven track record of building and operating scalable, reliable systems in production.

Expert skills in modern software development practices: test-driven development (TDD), micro-services architecture, and continuous delivery — with advanced back-end skills and genuine full stack capability.

Advanced skills in designing high-performance systems at scale, developing long-term architecture strategies, and working with modern databases (relational, NoSQL, BigQuery), message queues, and CI/CD pipelines.

Deeply embodies the "you build it, you run it" philosophy — taking full ownership of services from design through to production, proactively improving system health, reliability, and performance, and proven experience leading the resolution of high-impact operational incidents.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical solutions and strategy to both non-technical leaders and fellow engineers.

Leadership and mentoring skills with a passion for developing talent and building inclusive, high-performing teams.

Experience leading teams to produce high-quality solutions, with a track record of setting high standards for engineering quality, testing, observability, and monitoring.

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

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.

Keen to be part of REA but didn't find a perfect match with this opportunity? Perhaps the timing isn't right? You should join our Talent Neighbourhood!

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