Engineering Manager

Join to apply for the Engineering Manager role at REA Group Overview Join an organisation with a thriving culture centred around high performance and care. REA Group is changing the way the world experiences property, helping with every step of the property journey—from finding to financing your next home. Our people are the key to our success, and we are purpose driven and collaborative, driving innovation and real impact. We have been named in Australia’s “Top 5” Best Workplaces two years in a row and recognised as a Best Workplace for Women. This role sits within the Product & Audience group and within the RCA Tribe, partnering closely with Product Management, Design, Delivery, and Architecture to deliver customer and business outcomes at pace. The RCA Membership team is a newly formed, onshore squad focused on building a data-led membership proposition that grows a defendable, engaged audience and delivers exclusive member value—personalised insights, valuations, and market updates—driving higher engagement and quality, data-rich leads for customers in close partnership with the Consumer, Customer, and Mobile teams. Day to day This position reports to the Head of Engineering. 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, 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 and IPRs and pairing where appropriate. Ensure incident management practices are in place and manage stakeholder communications during incidents. Delivery leadership Deliver the product roadmap, tracking and communicating progress. 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 and 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; liaise with a Technical Program Manager regarding planning and delivery of your teams. 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 teams are staffed through our partner (Thoughtworks) internationally; your scope may extend across multiple teams and up to 12 team members, including 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 to build a high-performing team. Promote team engagement and oversee well-being and health of the team. Develop and manage your squads, focusing on team development and performance improvement. Who we’re looking for As an Engineering Manager, bring your experience in leading and inspiring engineering teams to achieve excellence. Your technical expertise and leadership capabilities are at the forefront, enabling you to design robust solutions and efficiently manage complex production systems. You are adept at empowering your team, guiding them toward outstanding results while fostering growth and development. You excel in cultivating strong interpersonal relationships and facilitating collaboration across diverse groups. You can juggle multiple priorities and drive continuous improvement with a commitment to high engineering standards and operational excellence. You lead by example, encouraging best practices and alignment with strategic goals, proactively addressing challenges to drive technical advancement and team cohesion. 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. Benefits 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 Because We Care program offers volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity Hackdays to bring ideas to life Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion We are committed to a working environment that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion. If you’ve got the skills and enthusiasm to learn but don’t meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. Join our Talent Neighbourhood Keen to be part of REA but didn’t find a perfect match with this opportunity? Join our Talent Neighbourhood. 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