Senior Software Engineer

REA Group

Senior Software Engineer building shared backend services for financial consumer experiences. Collaborating with teams to ensure strong engineering practices and operational readiness.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeMelbourne • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGraphQLJavaScript.NETNode.jsTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build, run, and evolve Mortgage Choice’s consumer digital experiences.
Design, build and maintain high-quality software across websites, CMS-backed experiences, calculators, lead journeys and supporting services.
Own technical delivery from discovery and solution design through build, release, monitoring and continuous improvement.
Partner closely with product, design and engineering peers to shape simple, scalable solutions.
Contribute to stronger engineering practices through code review, technical design, documentation and mentoring.
Help the team modernise its architecture, tooling and ways of working over time.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience building and operating customer-facing digital products in a cross-functional product environment.
Deep software engineering fundamentals, including solution design, code quality, debugging, refactoring and sound technical judgement.
Strong hands-on experience in backend and web engineering, ideally including C#/.NET and modern JavaScript or TypeScript-based applications.
Experience working with APIs, integrations and data flows in production systems.
Experience with CMS-backed websites or content-rich digital experiences, ideally in platforms such as Umbraco or similar headless or hybrid CMS environments.
Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern delivery practices, ideally including AWS, containers, CI/CD and automated testing.
A strong quality mindset, with a focus on safe deployment practices, observability, performance, security and operational excellence.
A collaborative leadership style, with the ability to mentor others, raise standards and positively influence how the squad works.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A hybrid and flexible approach to working.
Flexible leave options including birthday leave and the ability to 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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software Engineering FundamentalsSolution DesignCode QualityDebuggingRefactoringTechnical JudgementCI/CDAutomated TestingObservabilityPerformance Optimization

Soft Skills

Collaborative LeadershipMentoringInfluencing Standards