Engineering Manager

• Lead a dynamic engineering team to achieve technical excellence and deliver innovative solutions within REA’s Financial Services business.
• Permanent role based in Sydney.

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

The Engineering Manager will join the Financial Services Product & Technology Team located in our Financial Services business (which includes Mortgage Choice and finance on realestate.com.au). The Engineering Manager will work within the Application Processing Tribe, leading the engineering squads focused on application workflow and external integrations. 

Our goal is to be the #1 Destination to Find and Finance property.  Our Product & Technology team achieves this through building products that deliver exceptional home lending experiences that our brokers and consumers love and through creating business value powered by robust, innovative technology.   

What the role is all about

As an Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence and delivery success across your squads. You will be responsible for delivering on the product roadmap by enhancing technical solutions, ensuring engineering quality, and leading a team of individual contributors to achieve organisational goals. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and delivery leadership to foster a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance environment.

Technical Leadership:

• Oversee and execute the technical strategy of the team.
• Lead the technical design of solutions within your team.
• Involvement in building the product strategy, vision & OKRs through representing the technical aspects.
• Maintain systems health and engineering compliance.
• Oversee the technical operation of systems your team owns.  At REA we practice “You Own it You Run”.  Ensure your team contributes to your groups support roster & supports resolution of related incidents.
• Contribute to product discovery through tech direction & feasibility assessments.
• Lead engineering excellence through best practices, including design patterns, clean code, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and unit testing.
• Lead adoption of REA standards & platforms and align with tech strategy in your team.
• Contribute the tech component of GIF business cases.
• Support other teams that use or contribute to your teams' systems & service, e.g. through federation.
• Review mission critical PRs.
• Review IPRs and pairing where appropriate.
• Ensure incident management practises are in place and manage comms to stakeholder communication during an incident

People Leadership:

• Guide and manage individual contributors to foster career development and team cohesion, typically you will have 5-8 engineers in your team as your direct reports.    
• You may identify & coach emerging leadership talent.  
• Some of our teams are, partially or fully, staffed through our partner (Thoughtworks) team members internationally.  Here, your scope may extend across multiple teams & up to 12 team members. This includes the onboarding and management of contingent workers.
• Conduct mid-year and end-of-year performance reviews.
• Partner with HR in managing performance and providing coaching and development feedback.
• Lead recruitment efforts to build a high-performing team.
• Promote team engagement and oversee the well-being and health of the team.
• Develop and manage your squads, focusing on team development and performance improvement.

Delivery Leadership:

• Deliver the product roadmap, tracking and communicating progress.  A keen focus on delivering business value.
• Agile/scrum methodologies.
• Provide forecasts and timelines contributing to product roadmaps.
• Lead prioritisation and dependencies (for initiatives that don’t have TPMs)
• Ensure team effectiveness, overseeing team ceremonies & using standard delivery metrics to inform continuous improvement.
• Manage project trackers with support from Finance.
• Sometimes your delivery may be part of a larger program of work, in which case you will liaise with a Technical Program Manager regarding the planning and delivery of your teams.

Who we’re looking for

As an Engineering Manager, you bring your experience in leading and inspiring engineering teams to achieve excellence. Your technical expertise and leadership capabilities are at the forefront of your success, enabling you to design robust solutions and efficiently manage complex production systems. You are adept at empowering your team, guiding them towards achieving outstanding results while fostering growth and development.

You excel in cultivating strong interpersonal relationships, facilitating seamless collaboration across diverse groups. Your ability to juggle multiple priorities and drive continuous improvement is second nature. With a commitment to high engineering standards and operational excellence, you champion delivery success and innovation. You lead by example, encouraging your team to embrace best practices and align with strategic goals. Proactively addressing challenges, you perpetuate a culture of constant enhancement, driving both technical advancement and team cohesion.

Technical skills required

• Proficient in C# and Angular, Kotlin/React favourable.
• Deep understanding of integration technologies, particularly those involving third-parties in a Financial Services context.
• Practical experience of event driven architecture.
• Familiarity with IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) favourable.

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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