Ready Media Group – Overview

Ready Media Group (RMG) is a privately-owned online media business that operates within the property sector and encompasses multiple business divisions across the digital classifieds, technology & content spheres.

Established in 2015, our group employs a ‘challenger’ mentality with innovation, lateral thinking, and the ability for each team member to provide input into decision-making at its core - growth across all facets of the company continues to drive brand recognition & client uptake.

Our culture is one that drives a dynamic, forward-thinking and enjoyable working environment.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Head of Technology, RMG are looking for someone to help build a strong onshore presence of web application talent. You will be responsible for working alongside our inhouse app developer and offshore development team. You will have a solid understanding of SCRUM Agile Methodology where you will perform allocated development tasks, perform User Acceptance Testing, assist in preparation of sprint cycles and participate in the common SCRUM rituals (sprint planning, daily standups, retros).

As part of the in-house IT team, we are looking for an all-rounder who is also willing to help mentor our existing team. The role requires some afterhours support during peak periods and product delivery rollouts.

Why Work for us?

- Be part of a rapidly growing prop-tech company and make your mark in the industry
- Relaxed Dress Code, monthly staff awards and competitions
- Personal Development Training Budget
- Free lunch every Friday!
- Work & learn with some great technologies (Nodejs, React & AWS)
- New office building

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Application Development
- Contribute to modernisation of legacy code, tooling and development practices
- Manage technical debt and keep dependencies and frameworks up to date
- Write and review code with a focus on quality, security and coding standards
- Optimise application performance, including queries, caching and page load




- Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms (Salesforce, Mixpanel, Snowflake...)
- Mentor our other developers and provide necessary guidance & support
- Working with Product team to discuss and refine new requirements & functionality
- Build appropriate unit tests for Test Automation
- Have a good understanding of troubleshooting and navigating AWS Infrastructure
- Assist with some after hours work to deploy builds & provide user acceptance testing
- Actively participating in Technology and Product teams
- Be part of creating new initiatives
- Understanding User personas
- Design concepts
- Daily stand ups, Sprint Planning, retrospectives
- Help run daily stand ups with offshore development team at times
- Encourage the use of best practices with code design and build principles
- Help to implement CI/CD approach and Test Automation practices
- Writing specifications, updating system & end user documentation
- Assisting with other IT support administration duties from time-to-time

TECHNOLOGIES

- LEMP stack (Linux, NGINX, MySQL, PHP)
- BE: Laravel, YII2
- FE: JavaScript (ES6+), jQuery, CSS (Less)
- Component library: Storybook, Chromatic (visual regression)
- Planned: frontend modernisation to React and Next.js
- APIs: RESTful, MCP
- Testing: PHPUnit, Selenium
- Version control: Git (via Bitbucket)
- AWS Hosted Environment: EC2, S3, RDS, ElastiCache (Redis/Valkey), Secrets Manager, SSM
- Atlassian JIRA/Confluence, Bitbucket, ServiceDesk

MUST HAVES

- Strong PHP with Laravel; Yii2, or other framework experience
- Strong JavaScript and React/Next.js
- Strong MySQL, including schema design and query optimisation
- RESTful API design and development
- Strong skillset with AWS Infrastructure environments (EC2, RDS, S3, Cache)
- Good understanding of Agile methodology
- Understand CI/CD - Test Automation, Test Driven Development
- Secure coding practices
- Git and code review workflows

BONUS

- Experience migrating legacy frontends to modern frameworks
- Experience with AWS OpenSearch & Bedrock or Agentic Search
- AI tooling (MCP, LLM integrations)

📌 Full Stack Developer (Melbourne)
🏢 Ready Media Group
📍 Melbourne