Melbourne Associate Software Engineer — Hybrid Role

News Corporation; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Flexible leave

Parental leave

Volunteer leave

Hackdays

Job summary

REA Group is seeking an Associate Engineer in Melbourne to contribute to the Content Moderation Platform. You will join an agile team, develop features, write tests, and help maintain secure, scalable services.

Day-to-day you’ll collaborate with Product Managers and Designers, participate in ceremonies, and follow security and change management practices while growing your technical capabilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 months’ software development experience.
• Proficiency in at least one language such as Scala, Kotlin or Java.
• Experience with Agile/Kanban and cross-functional teams.
• Foundational full‑stack development skills across front-end and back-end.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and testing.
• Good problem-solving, debugging and communication skills.
• Growth mindset and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement software features and fixes following specs and standards.
• Write clean, testable code and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, end-to-end).
• Participate in peer code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to standards.
• Maintain and improve existing applications and services; resolve defects.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and resolve production issues to ensure reliability.
• Contribute to technical documentation and development processes.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers to clarify requirements.

Skills

Software development

Scala/Kotlin/Java

Agile/Kanban

Full-stack

Software fundamentals

Problem solving

Continuous learning

Education

Tertiary qualification (CS/SE/IT)

Job description

REA Group is seeking an Associate Engineer in Melbourne to contribute to the Content Moderation Platform. You will join an agile team, develop features, write tests, and help maintain secure, scalable services.

Day-to-day you’ll collaborate with Product Managers and Designers, participate in ceremonies, and follow security and change management practices while growing your technical capabilities.