Engineering Director

Reapit; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Reapit Australia is seeking an Engineering Director to lead and mentor engineering teams across multiple squads, aligning technical direction with business outcomes.

You will drive a pragmatic, people-first leadership style, champion a shift to true continuous deployment, reduce ceremony, and maintain a strong focus on delivering safe, frequent software releases while growing engineering capability.

Responsibilities

• Line Management: Provide direct line management for a broad group of engineers, spanning all levels, from Engineer through to Principal, in a flat structure that keeps leaders close to their teams and to the work.
• Mentorship and Growth: Build strong, trusting relationships with each report, understanding their strengths, motivations and goals, and actively coaching and mentoring them to grow.
• Performance and Check-ins: Hold regular, meaningful one-to-ones, staying responsive to concerns while communicating strategy and priorities at the right level.
• People Ceremonies: Ensure all formal reviews, performance and compensation discussions and other people ceremonies are conducted in a timely way, in line with company policy.
• Continuous Deployment: Champion our move towards a true continuous deployment model, working with the Regional Heads of DevOps and QA to advance CI/CD, automation and deployment efficiency, aligned around GitHub Actions.
• Hands-On Technical Leadership: Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration and innovation, staying close enough to the technology to guide sound design decisions and keep engineering leaders hands-on.
• Technology Strategy: Promote and advocate the Reapit Global Technology Strategy, built around a centralised Platform as a Service and shared tools due care

Job description

Lead our Engineering Teams into the next stage in our product revolution!

Reapit is the original, end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies of all sizes. We’ve been helping sales and lettings agents to build relationships and grow their businesses for more than 25 years. Our technology connects property professionals in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand with buyers, sellers, tenants and landlords to power the relationships that change lives.

In Australia, Reapit stands as the preferred technology choice among the nation's leading estate agents and agencies. Tailored to the unique demands of the Australian property market, Reapit provides successful leaders with unparalleled tools across sales, property management, client relations, and data analytics, reinforcing their position at the pinnacle of real estate excellence.

What you’ll be doing

The Engineering Director leads, line-manages and mentors the engineering teams within our regional business vertical, across multiple delivery squads. This is a people-first leadership role for an experienced technology manager who genuinely connects with engineers, builds strong and trusting relationships, and takes real pride in developing the people around them.

We run a deliberately flat structure with a broad span of direct reports. That design is intentional: it keeps our technical leaders close to their teams and close to the work, so this role suits someone who leads through relationships and technical credibility rather than layers of management. You will be hands-on with your people, if not always hands-on in the code.

You will be a pragmatic leader who values outcomes over process. We are on a journey towards a true continuous deployment model and are transitioning away from a traditional Scrum-based agile process, so we are looking for someone who can guide teams through that change with a light touch, cutting away ceremony that does not earn its place and championing the practices that let us ship safely and often.

Key Responsibilities:

People Leadership, Development and Mentorship:

• Line Management: Provide direct line management for a broad group of engineers, spanning all levels, from Engineer through to Principal, in a flat structure that keeps leaders close to their teams and to the work.
• Mentorship and Growth: Build strong, trusting relationships with each report, understanding their strengths, motivations and goals, and actively coaching and mentoring them to grow. Foster a wider culture of mentorship by creating opportunities for others and seeking them out for yourself.
• Performance and Check-ins: Hold regular, meaningful one-to-ones, staying responsive to concerns while communicating strategy and priorities at the right level. Manage performance proactively against a skills-based matrix, addressing under-performance early and constructively through both informal and formal channels.
• People Ceremonies: Ensure all formal reviews, performance and compensation discussions and other people ceremonies are conducted in a timely way, in line with company policy.

Engineering Culture, Practice and Modernisation:

• Continuous Deployment: Champion our move towards a true continuous deployment model, working with the Regional Heads of DevOps and QA to advance CI/CD, automation and deployment efficiency, aligned around GitHub Actions.
• Hands-On Technical Leadership: Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration and innovation, staying close enough to the technology to guide sound design decisions and keep engineering leaders hands-on.
• Technology Strategy: Promote and advocate the Reapit Global Technology Strategy, built around a centralised Platform as a Service and shared tools such