Senior Software and Systems Engineer

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This is the announcement from our HR department for a job at REA:

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We are home to Australia’s No.1 residential and commercial property websites, realestate.com.au and realcommercial.com.au. In the international marketplace, we operate the market-leading Italian property site, casa.it.

As Australia’s leading online property company, we pride ourselves on outstanding products and innovative thinking. We recognise that to continue to be the best in the business, we need to have the best people in the business. That’s where you come in.

As a technology focused business we pride ourselves on a forward thinking attitude, adoption of leading edge technologies and ways of working, such as agile and lean practices at scale, dev-ops, cloud adoption and award winning mobile apps. We also love to be involved in the IT community.

This current opportunity is in REA’s Delivery Services team. We’re a small cross-functional delivery team that provides direction and support to our Line of Business delivery teams in the use of our cloud environments, build engineering and tooling and specialist software architecture support.

As a Senior Software & Systems Engineer your primary focus:

Formulation and implementation of strategies to move towards continuous deployment practices and cloud-enabled applications Building internal tools, services and APIs that enable “push button” continuous deployment of applications into development, test and production environments. Communication with delivery teams and senior management. This is a hands-on software development and systems engineering role that also has responsibility of mentoring junior staff. We require advanced expertise in multiple programming languages, including Ruby and Java; advanced expertise in Linux/Unix, including Red Hat, Centos and Debian; experience with shell scripting; experience with “cloud” providers, especially Amazon Web Services; and experience designing and building RESTful services and APIs and integrating third-party web service APIs. Experience working in agile teams and with build engineering on an enterprise scale is highly desirable.

Apart from being the kind of place that quickly identifies and rewards ability, we offer a range of benefits, ongoing career development and a friendly environment.

Interested? Apply online.

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This is my additional commentary:

I would like to caution that only the most masochistic should apply online as our outsourced job tracking and management website appears to prove that time can actually stand still, something that eminent physicists are yet able to do. The site, still trapped in the 1980s appears to work best in browsers long since past, and has the design aesthetic of a monkey etching the walls of its confinement with the remnants of its food.

The upsides of the job are that you work with a team that is responsible for many of the cool new things we are doing at REA, the downside is that you have to work with me. By all reports the upside vastly outweighs the downside.

If you have any questions, or would like to apply - drop me an email at jon.eaves@rea-group.com, and I'll save you the hassle of dealing with "The Job Application System that Time Forgot".

Do I have to be at my desk by 9am? as at my last place, they were really antsy about that.

Hey I am not sure if this is the right forum, but I can't work out what the "-->" operator does - does it mean "goes down to" as that would make total sense (C++):

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
     int x = 10;
     while( x --> 0 ) // x goes to 0
     {
       printf("%d ", x);
     }
}

I can't see how this will replace twitter, I can't see anyones @replies here. WTF?

awesome