Data Engineer in Richmond, Australia

• 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 (https://www.rea-group.com/about-us/about-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

PropTrack is REA’s property data solutions business. The acquisition of Hometrack (now ‘PropTrack’) by the REA Group in 2018 is part of a strategy to create a ‘property data powerhouse’. The capabilities required will underpin REA’s market leading position into the future, protect against new market entrants and networks as well as provide a new strategic growth plank for REA Group across Data Solutions, Products, Platforms, Insights and Analytics.

We are the engine room of REA. Our mission is to:

• Improve the quality, access and usage of our property data for consumers, and customers.

• Build reusable data products and patterns that unlock value stored in our data

• Create unique insights based on user, listings, property and customer data

• Invest in the reliability, quality and security of systems and data

What the role is all about

You will be joining a group of wonderful people, function in a distributed team and solve complex problems that have far reaching benefits to the business and Tech community.

As a Data Engineer you will contribute within PropTrack in the following ways:

• Designing, coding, testing and deploying new software products using a variety of technologies and platforms.

• Maintaining existing products, including bug fixes and “Business As Usual” feature enhancements.

• Supporting production systems.

• Data migration from other database environments & cloud services

• Building high quality solutions that meet the needs of our users.

• Leading the implementation of major features.

Who we’re looking for

Our ideal candidate will have skills in some of the following areas, whilst demonstrating both a desire and commitment to learning others.

• Good skills in one or more mainstream programming languages, preferably Python.

• Good understanding of design patterns, modern software development techniques and continuous delivery strategies.

• Exposure to data engineering concepts and associated technologies such as Airflow, BigQuery Kafka, batch and real-time data pipelines, ELT, and SQL.

• Exposure to Linux and shell scripting.

• Experience with DevOps practices and techniques, such as Docker and CI/CD tools.

• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders.

• Ability to manage the competing demands of multiple projects in a timely manner.

• Ability to work collaboratively and autonomously in a fast paced environment.

Bonus if you have any of the following

• Experience in using and managing Cloud infrastructure in AWS and/or GCP.

• Experience with any Infrastructure as Code techniques, particularly AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK and Terraform.

• Exposure to platform engineering concepts or developer experience & tooling.

• Exposure to Scala or Ruby, we have some legacy systems that need care until we migrate

• Willingness to learn new and complex technologies, and ability to share knowledge with the team.

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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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!

By joining, you will receive information about our working culture and life at REA, industry updates from various areas of our business, invites to our events or materials to help you succeed in interviews at REA. In addition, our recruiters will reach out to you if there’s a role that matches your interests, skills and aspirations.

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