Senior Engineer - Salesforce

Rea Group; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A hybrid and flexible approach to work

Flexible leave options including, and

Flexible parental leave offering for

Hackdays to bring your ideas to life

Because We Care volunteering leave / &

Job summary

REA Group in Melbourne-based offices is seeking a Senior Salesforce Architect to drive the Salesforce and AWS integration strategy within Customer 360. You will shape designs, mentor engineers, and align solutions with REA standards to deliver high-quality customer experiences.

You will lead CI/CD practices, ensure system health, and collaborate across squads to enable scalable, secure, and performant platforms. This hybrid role offers flexibility and a collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• 5 ~ 7+ years delivering complex Salesforce solutions in agile environments.
• Expert-level Apex, Lightning (Aura & LWC), integration patterns (REST/SOAP, platform events), asynchronous processing and Salesforce security model.
• Experience building event-driven architectures with AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, Apache Kafka and other messaging/streaming platforms.
• Proven experience establishing and running CI/CD pipelines, version-control strategies and automated testing frameworks for Salesforce and AWS workloads.
• Deep understanding of Salesforce architectural patterns, governor limits and multi-cloud integration best practices.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and driving continuous improvement across multiple squads or streams.
• Nice to have: Salesforce CPQ or other revenue-generating clouds highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Contribute and execute the technical strategy for Salesforce and AWS integrations.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of Salesforce solutions; you may lead slices of designs/projects.
• Collaborate in developing product strategies and technical strategies with your technical insights.
• Oversee system health and engineering compliance within Salesforce and AWS Cloud architectures.
• Facilitate the operational excellence of solutions achieved by your teams, ensuring accountability and responsiveness.
• Promote engineering excellence via CI/CD pipelines, secure coding, TDD, and automated testing frameworks.
• Align Salesforce development with REA standards and integration strategies.
• Contribute to broader strategic business cases by leveraging Salesforce and AWS capabilities.
• Support cross-functional collaboration with teams utilizing Salesforce systems, ensuring cohesive service delivery.
• Evaluate and respond to critical technical challenges and objectives.

Skills

Salesforce Apex

Lightning UI

REST/SOAP integration

AWS Lambda

CI/CD pipelines

Multi-cloud integration

Salesforce security model

Mentoring engineers

Tools

AWS

Apache Kafka

Salesforce CPQ

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

• Make an impact bringing your ideas and solving complex problems in a collaborative, supportive team!
• Work for a leading property brand impacting thousands of users!
• Permanent full time role based in Richmond

We're REA
With bold and ambitious goals, REA Group is changing the way the world experiences property. 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.

Our 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.

Where the team fits in

The role sits within the Customer 360 tribe in the Customer Marketplace Portfolio of Customer Product & Experience group. The tribe manages the platform and data that powers the best customer experiences. This tribe is on a mission to provide a high quality 360-degree view of our customers to enable delivery of superior value to them. The tribe is accountable for different customer experiences like onboarding, contract management, managing agency and profile information while supporting sales flows. This tribe is also Data owner and publishes foundational dataset making it easily accessible to draw insights and decisions.

What the role is all about

• Contribute and execute the technical strategy for Salesforce and AWS integrations.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of Salesforce solutions; at times you may lead slices of designs/projects as part of your learning and development.
• Collaborate in developing product strategies and technical strategies with your technical insights.
• Oversee system health and engineering compliance within Salesforce and AWS Cloud architectures.
• Facilitate the operational excellence of solutions achieved by your teams, ensuring accountability and responsiveness.
• Promote engineering excellence via best practices such as CI/CD pipelines, secure coding, TDD, and automated testing frameworks.
• Align Salesforce development with REA standards and integration strategies.
• Contribute to broader strategic business cases by leveraging Salesforce and AWS capabilities.
• Support cross-functional collaboration with teams utilizing Salesforce systems, ensuring cohesive service delivery.
• Evaluate and respond to critical technical challenges and objectives.

Who we’re looking for

• 5 ~ 7+ years delivering complex Salesforce solutions in agile environments
• Expert-level Apex, Lightning (Aura & LWC), integration patterns (REST/SOAP, platform events), asynchronous processing and Salesforce security model.
• Experience building event-driven architectures with AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, Apache Kafka and other messaging/streaming platforms.
• Proven experience establishing and running CI/CD pipelines, version-control strategies and automated testing frameworks for Salesforce and AWS workloads.
• Deep understanding of Salesforce architectural patterns, governor limits and multi-cloud integration best practices.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and driving continuous improvement across multiple squads or streams.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce CPQ or other revenue-generating clouds highly regarded.
• Nice to have: Salesforce Application/System Architect or Platform Developer II certification, AWS certifications, and familiarity with Design Systems or Web Components outside Salesforce.

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 & Benefits include:

• A hybrid and flexible approach to working
• Flexible leave options including, birthday leave and 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

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.

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