Senior Lead / Staff Engineer, FullStack

REA Cyber City; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

REA Group’s REA Cyber City in India is seeking a Senior Lead/Staff Engineer who acts as a squad architect and systems thinker, owning complex technical problems end-to-end and guiding platform evolution at scale.

This senior IC role emphasizes architectural judgement, operational ownership, and mentoring engineers, with close collaboration across product, engineering managers, and delivery leads to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable systems as REA grows.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a senior contributor on complex production systems.
• Strong hands-on full-stack experience with React and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
• Deep understanding of CI/CD, trunk-based development, and automated testing.
• Ability to design and operate containerised systems with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication of architectural decisions and trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, review, and operate production-grade full-stack systems.
• Lead delivery of high-impact features and subsystems with quality and performance in mind.
• Promote engineering standards through code reviews and guidance.
• Own architecture decisions and ADRs for complex systems.
• Shape platform-level architecture aligned with long-term strategy.
• Design APIs and data flows that scale across teams and domains.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

React

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Architecture

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

React

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

Job description

In 1995, in a garage in Melbourne, Australia, REA Group was born from a simple question: “Can

we change the way people experience property?

Thirty years later, REA Group is a global digital real estate leader operating across multiple

continents, building large-scale, consumer-facing platforms used by millions every day.

Our success comes from staying true to a day-one mindset—combining innovation, curiosity, and

long-term thinking to evolve complex systems that power critical customer journeys.

REA Cyber City is an extension of REA Group’s global technology organisation. Teams here work

closely with counterparts in Australia and other regions to design, build, and operate core

platforms and capabilities. Engineers in Cyber City contribute directly to REA’s long-term

technology strategy, solving real-world problems at scale and shaping systems that need to

perform, adapt, and endure over time.

If you’re excited by the challenge of building resilient systems, working on meaningful

problems, and growing with a global engineering organisation—read on.

What the role is all about

We’re seeking a Senior Lead / Staff Engineer with 8+ years exp, who operates as a squad architect and systems thinker, owning complex technical problems end-to-end and shaping the evolution of REA’s platforms at scale.

This role is designed for a senior individual contributor who leads primarily through technical

depth, architectural judgement, and operational ownership. The focus is on designing,

building, evolving, and operating reliable systems over time—while influencing engineering

standards, mentoring engineers, and enabling predictable delivery across squads.

You will work closely with engineers, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and

stakeholders to solve domain-wide problems and ensure systems remain scalable, secure, and

maintainable as REA continues to grow.

Core Behavioural Signals

• Shapes architecture and ensures long-term technical direction aligned with platform and domain goals.
• Drives system health, stability, performance, and maintainability.
• Solves domain-wide and cross-team technical problems.
• Enforces quality, standards, and strong engineering practices.
• Resolves complex dependencies across squads and systems.
• Influences technical strategy and represents engineering in decision forums.

What you’ll do

Technical Execution

• Design, build, review, and operate production-grade full-stack systems using modern engineering practices.
• Own delivery of complex, high-impact features and subsystems, leading by example in code quality, correctness, and performance.
• Drive high engineering standards through pairing, deep code reviews, and clear technical guidance.
• Own architecture decisions for complex systems, documenting and communicating trade-offs through design reviews and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Shape subsystem and platform-level architecture aligned with REA’s long-term technical strategy.
• Evaluate and articulate trade-offs across performance, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability.
• Design and evolve APIs, services, and data flows that scale across teams and domains.
• Design or contribute to event-driven and asynchronous architectures; experience with streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka) is a plus.

System Ownership & Operational Excellence

• Own production systems end-to-end, including reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and technical debt management.
• Own application performance across the stack by identifying bottlenecks, driving optimisations, and ensuring systems meet latency and scalability targets.
• Design and operate containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Ensure systems are observable, resilient, and designed for safe failure and recovery.
• Champion continuous improvement in operational practices and developer experience.

Delivery Leadership

• Contribute to planning and sequencing of work, helping teams balance scope, quality, and delivery timelines.
• Identify cross-team dependencies and technical risks early, unblocking teams through sound technical decisions.
• Partner closely with Engineering Managers and delivery leads to improve predictability without compromising quality.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews, technical discussions, and hands-on guidance.
• Raise the technical bar across squads by reinforcing strong engineering practices and architectural consistency.
• Influence without formal authority, earning trust through technical credibility and clarity of thinking.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience operating as a senior contributor on complex, production systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with modern full-stack technologies, including React, Experience designing and operating systems on AWS and/or GCP, including cloud-native services.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles, including trunk-based development, automated testing, progressive delivery, and rollback strategies.
• Experience designing and operating containerised systems using Docker and Demonstrated ownership of system design, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Ability to clearly communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and technical direction.
• Strong mentoring mindset with the ability to elevate others without direct people management responsibility.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where priorities evolve and pragmatic.