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Full-time
Hybrid and flexible working, Birthday leave, Option to purchase additional leave, Flexible parental leave, Volunteering leave, Community grants
Posted 29d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
Lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers, machine learning experts, and data scientists to build next-generation conversational search and semantic matching pipelines. Drive technical excellence and the strategic roadmap for AI-powered search experiences at scale.
Requirements
Requires extensive experience leading engineering teams of 8-10 people across software and AI disciplines. Must have strong technical judgment in LLM integration, cloud architecture, and a proven track record of coaching engineers.
Full job description
This is an opportunity to lead a team working on the future of property search at REA.
Help shape experiences used at enormous scale.
Flexible work environment
We're REA
At REA, we’re changing the way the world experiences property.
Our brands include realestate.com.au, realcommercial.com.au, Flatmates.com.au, PropTrack and Mortgage Choice. We’re proud to have been named one of Australia’s Best Workplaces four times since 2021, including third place in 2025, as well as Best Workplace in Technology in 2024 and 2025.
A bit about the team:
AI Search Intelligence exists to reimagine REA’s core consumer search experiences, bringing together search, discovery and platform capabilities so we can help millions of people find their next home.
This role sits within the Core Experiences portfolio, in the Experience & Platform group, leading the AI Search Intelligence squad. It’s a recently established team focused on building and scaling REA’s next-generation conversational search capabilities, natural language query understanding APIs and attribute-aware semantic matching pipelines.
A little bit about the role:
As Engineering Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role driving technical excellence, delivery success and team leadership for AI Search Intelligence. You’ll lead a diverse team of 9 direct reports across full stack engineering, machine learning and data science. You’ll help the team strengthen engineering quality and continue building capability in a team that solves some of REA’s most complex and strategically important search problems.
You’re comfortable leading teams that build and operate complex production software systems and high-throughput APIs, and you’re energised by the opportunity to apply modern AI and NLP technologies at scale.
Day to day you can expect to deliver on the following:
Deliver squad roadmap commitments and AI search engineering outcomes in a sustainable way.
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team through coaching, pairing, feedback, delegation and setting clear expectations.
Set technical direction and maintain high standards in software engineering quality, code standards, solution design, AI and ML deployment and evaluation, systems health and engineering compliance.
Drive the development of conversational search features, memory systems, query understanding pipelines and semantic search capabilities.
Partner closely with product leaders and adjacent engineering teams to shape the strategic direction of search at REA.
Help define how AI-powered semantic search and traditional search capabilities integrate into a unified future experience.
Make thoughtful decisions about technical trade-offs, including the economics and operational cost of AI-powered features at scale.
Create an environment where engineers take ownership, step up into new responsibilities and do their best work together.
Support a strong operational culture grounded in REA’s values.
What we’re looking for:
Experience leading engineering teams of 8-10 people, ideally across a mix of software, machine learning and data disciplines.
Recent hands-on experience coaching engineers through pairing, code review and clear engineering standards.
Strong technical judgement and the ability to read and understand code across full stack, machine learning and data science environments.
Experience designing and operating AI-powered applications, including integrating LLMs into products, evaluation-driven development, experimentation and continuous improvement.
Strong judgement across modern API design, cloud architecture, software engineering practices and systems thinking.
The ability to lead through ambiguity, manage competing priorities and make progress in a fast-evolving landscape.
A strong sense of ownership and a proactive mindset — someone who brings proposals, not just questions.
Excellent collaboration and influencing skills across product, design, architecture and engineering stakeholders
A commitment to software craft, robust model evaluation, operational ownership, team wellbeing and growth.
A leadership style that is inclusive, grounded, empowering and human, with the personality and energy to build a strong team environment.
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. Some of our perks and benefits include:
A hybrid and flexible approach to working
Flexible leave options including birthday leave and the option 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
REA Group (ASX: REA) is not your average digital business. From humble beginnings in a Melbourne garage in 1995, we have grown into a leading digital business specialising in property. We help people with all aspects of their property experience – not just buying, selling, and renting. Our immersive AI-led consumer experiences cover every stage of the property journey offering rich content, unique data and insights, highly accurate property valuation estimates and innovative home financing solutions. We deliver superior value to our customers with a suite of premium products and services, and seamlessly connect them to Australia's largest property audience.
Our people are the key to our success and come to work every day living our values. They are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives our innovative culture and our ability to make an impact.
Offices: 511 Church Street, Richmond, Victoria 3121, AU · 309 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, AU
REA Group (ASX: REA) is not your average digital business. From humble beginnings in a Melbourne garage in 1995, we have grown into a leading digital business specialising in property. We help people with all aspects of their property experience – not just buying, selling, and renting. Our immersive AI-led consumer experiences cover every stage of the property journey offering rich content, unique data and insights, highly accurate property valuation estimates and innovative home financing solutions. We deliver superior value to our customers with a suite of premium products and services, and seamlessly connect them to Australia's largest property audience.
Our people are the key to our success and come to work every day living our values. They are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives our innovative culture and our ability to make an impact.
Offices: 511 Church Street, Richmond, Victoria 3121, AU · 309 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, AU