Senior Software Engineer - React
Come and join one of the fastest growing multi-product proptech solutions in Australia and watch your career take off.
Reapit – Who are we?
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
- Design, build, and optimise complex, high-performance front-end applications using React and TypeScript.
- Implement modular, reusable UI components leveraging modern frameworks and design systems (e.g., Storybook).
- Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and DevOps to deliver scalable, maintainable features aligned to product goals.
- Integrate front-end systems with RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints to provide seamless user experiences.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, ensuring robust, secure, and performant front-end solutions.
- Champion testing culture across the team—driving Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, and Playwright best practices.
- Mentor and pair with junior developers, sharing best practices in React, testing, and clean code principles.
- Drive improvements in build and deployment pipelines (Webpack, Vite, CI/CD) for reliability and efficiency.
- Actively manage and refactor technical debt within your code areas, ensuring long-term maintainability.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and ‘always ship each cycle’ delivery mindset.
Who we're looking for
At Reapit, we prioritise hiring individuals who share our values and possess the right attitudes and behaviours for success. Whilst some of the listed requirements may be important, don’t worry if you don’t meet all of them, we’d still like to hear from you.
- An experienced front-end engineer with deep React and TypeScript expertise and a passion for building elegant UIs.
- Strong understanding of modern JavaScript (ES6+), front-end performance optimisation, and browser behaviour.
- Experience working with Redux Toolkit, Zustand, Recoil, or React Query for state management.
- Knowledge of modern build tools such as Webpack, Vite, Babel, and package management (npm/Yarn/pnpm).
- Hands-on experience with REST and GraphQL integration in production environments.
- Proficiency in automated testing frameworks and tools: Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, or Playwright.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and code review processes that promote quality and collaboration.
- Awareness of front-end security best practices and accessibility (OWASP, WCAG).
- Strong debugging, profiling, and performance-tuning abilities across modern browsers.
- A collaborative communicator who mentors others, contributes to squad technical decisions, and supports team success.
What your impact and success looks like
We expect your success and impact in the early stages of your career with us to look something like this:
Within 1 month:
- Gain a solid understanding of Reapit’s technology stack, design systems, and development workflows.
- Be shipping production-ready features in React and TypeScript.
- Contribute to sprint ceremonies, actively engaging in planning, estimation, and peer review.
- Identify opportunities to improve UI performance or component reusability in current projects.
Within 3 months:
- Take ownership of significant front-end features or modules within a product area.
- Deliver well-tested, performant components that enhance customer experience and maintainability.
- Actively mentor junior developers in the team, promoting testing and design best practices.
- Collaborate with Design and Product teams to evolve component libraries and ensure visual consistency.
- Influence the front-end development roadmap with ideas for optimisation, tooling, and scalability.
Within 6 months:
- Be recognised as a key contributor to Reapit’s front-end architecture and UI excellence.
- Regularly deliver impactful, high-quality releases that improve product reliability and user satisfaction.
- Drive cross-squad initiatives that raise coding standards and developer experience.
- Champion modernisation of legacy front-end code, improving performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
- Act as a technical mentor and role model, guiding peers through complex React and TypeScript challenges.
We operate a Flexible Working Policy and we would ideally like for you to work from our office location at least 2 days per week.
** Please note the start date for this role is 1st February, 2026.
Don't tick all the boxes? Neither do we
We care about our industry and want it to become a more inclusive and diverse place to work. So, we’re driven by hiring not only by experience and relevance for the role but by sharing our values and the right attitudes and behaviours for success. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all. We feel we have an empowering environment where everyone is supported and respected, and we want you to feel this too. We welcome new ideas, thinking and approaches, whilst listening to all
our employees.
“We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.”
- Department
- Engineering
- Locations
- Reapit Brisbane office
About Reapit ANZ
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.