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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.\nOur 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.\nWhere the team fits in\nThis Engineering role sits within our Advertising and Value part of the business. The role will sit in a team that believes in changing the way people experience property. They do this by connecting real estate agents with the largest property seeking audience in Australia. 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Below are some of the attributes we are looking for in a candidate:\nDeveloped skills in building full-stack web products \nDeveloped skills in designing and building systems with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS EC2, Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, basic networking etc..) \nDeveloped skills in two or more programming languages - (e.g.TypeScript/React/Kotlin/Java) \nDeveloped skills in modern software development techniques (e.g. functional programming, object oriented programming, test-driven development and CI/CD) \nExperienced in agile environment and systems development life cycle \nAbility to effectively work in pair programming and also independently \nAble to communicate and collaborate effectively with other teams/tribes and stakeholders. \nAnd some bonus points (and these are also things you can gain from this role):\nExperience with functional programming \nWork in a collaborative team environment and exercise pair programming on daily basis. \nAble to provide business solutions with constrains/limits and adapt to changes \nWork productively within tight deadlines in an agile environment \nExperience working in a distributed team (e.g. remote team in China) is desirable \nExperience in designing and building micro-services and distributed systems, (e.g. REST API, GraphQL, queue-based, event driven architecture with Kafka or SQS) with good performance and adequate security \nExperience in building data pipeline with Airflow Breeze, Google BigQuery, Relational Databases \nThe REA experience\nThe physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our people is something we’ll never stop caring about. 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