Engineering Lead (Ruby)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 28, 2026.
Join the National Leader in Cloud-Based Property Management
Our Story
PropertyMe is Australia’s #1 property management platform with over 60% + market share. PropertyMe is used by more than 35,000 real estate professionals to manage over 1.7 million properties.
Your work will impact the day-to-day lives of millions of Real Estate professionals, tenants, and owners across Australia and New Zealand.
Your Mission:
The Engineering Lead is a key member of the cross-functional delivery team. You will be responsible for combining a deep understanding of modern software engineering with strong communication and technical leadership skills.
Responsibilities
- Has hands-on involvement in building solutions that solve higher-level customer problems
- Works with our Product Team to refine features based on domain knowledge and technical experience
- Designs solutions that cater for the challenges of complex domains and the problems of scale in large SaaS solutions
- Balances design choices across our current architecture and our desired future state
- Has great experience in writing clean, maintainable, loosely coupled, elegant, and testable code
- Demonstrates a healthy approach to technical debt and takes a pragmatic approach to managing it
- Leads the team in achieving high-quality standards for delivery
- Promotes practical and effective use of lean, agile principles of software delivery
- Promotes and improves our automated testing suite
- Teaches their team to assess potential solutions based on pragmatic logic and development effort over “gut feel” and/or resume-driven development
- Leads their team in all aspects of feature delivery, including security
- documentation, automation, change management, supportability, and more
- Encourages a learning environment, using small failures as learning moments for their team
- Coaches, mentors, and supports their team members' growth using various feedback mechanisms and techniques
What you bring
Knowledge and experience in collaborative discussions on architecture, code quality, tooling, release processes, and ways of working with the goal of continuously improving the engineering culture and environment.8+ years commercial development experience in Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Vue, and PostgresQL. Must also have at least 12 months of practical agentic AI experience in a work environment.
The benefits and perks
- Job security working for one of Australia's leading PropTech companies
- 3 days WFH (Hybrid work)
- Your whole team will be with you in one location (Sydney)
- Small Scrum teams with a lot of autonomy
- No on-call duty - you focus on delivering solutions
- Free onsite snacks, breakfast, and lunch
- Beautiful office in Sydney CBD with great views of Darling Harbour
- Regular milestone parties and events
It’s uncertain times at the moment, but there’s nothing uncertain about the opportunity here at PropertyMe, we’re building something special and we want to chat with you about joining us, no matter your background. Apply now or check out our People & Culture team on LinkedIn, we’re always open for a chat!