Senior Web Developer / Web Architect

Location: Melbourne

Employment Type: Full-Time

Company Background

Ready Media Group is an end-to-end, full-service property, media, technology and data business. The foundations of Ready Media Group are twin purpose-built, market-leading classified platforms DevelopmentReady and CommercialReady - used by sophisticated real estate groups throughout Australia to reach high-intent developers and investors. Complementing these platforms is InstaDocs, Australia’s first purpose-built data-room solution for the commercial property sector. District Data, Our fully integrated commercial property due-diligence platform and Rooftop Studio, Ready Media Group’s award-winning creative and video agency. 

Company Culture

As an independent business owned and led by its hands-on executive team, Ready Media Group offers an exceptional workplace environment built on stability, trust and long-term commitment. We pride ourselves on long-term employee retention, with an average tenure of 5 years, reflecting our culture of support, empowerment and strong career progression.

Our team enjoys:

• Birthday Leave – an additional paid day off each year.
• Work-From-Home Flexibility – 1 day per week, between Tuesday and Thursday.
• Free Lunch Fridays – a weekly team lunch to connect and celebrate the week.
• Quarterly Social Events – team experiences and activities each quarter.

• A high-performance environment with no unnecessary bureaucracy or politics.
• A culture of ownership, autonomy and accountability, everyone is trusted and supported to deliver at a high level.
• Regular national strategy days and workshops to maintain alignment across the business.
• On-going training and upskilling to meet the rapid changing technology landscape 

We operate as a united team with shared goals, clear accountability, and a strong sense of purpose.

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Web Developer / Web Architect to join our Melbourne team.

This is a senior, high-impact technical role responsible for the architecture, development, optimisation and evolution of all Ready Media Group digital platforms.

Our current core stack is PHP, and you will lead the ongoing refinement, modernisation and long-term replatforming of our systems. You will also oversee and coordinate the output of our on & offshore development team, ensuring a unified engineering standard across both local and offshore teams.

You will play a central role in executing Ready Media Group’s transition into AI, enabling new AI-driven workflows, website features, and digital product experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Demonstrate an understanding of technical architecture of all RMG digital platforms (PHP-based).
• Design scalable backend systems, APIs, service layers and integration frameworks.
• Set engineering standards, coding patterns, documentation practices and workflows.
• Modernise and refactor legacy components for long-term maintainability.
• Lead key projects with decision-making across frameworks, dependencies, hosting and toolsets.

Platform Modernisation

• Define the future-state architecture for performance, scalability and rapid AI feature deployment.
• Lead migration strategy, codebase restructuring, documentation and implementation.
• Collaborate closely with relevant stakeholders including product design, product owners, various departments to deliver the next-generation platform.

Collaboration With on and offshore Development Team

• Lead day-to-day technical coordination with on and offshore engineers.
• Provide architecture direction, tasks, code reviews and quality oversight.
• Ensure offshore output meets RMG engineering standards and timelines.
• Maintain clear communication and alignment across distributed teams.

AI-Integrated Web Systems

• Work closely with our development partners to implement AI-powered features into backend and frontend workflows.
• Build frameworks enabling conversational UI, AI-driven insights and automation.
• Work with team to deliver prototypes, models and new digital tools.

Web Development & Delivery

• Write clean, scalable PHP code across backend and frontend layers.
• Deliver new features, modules, UX refinements and functional enhancements.
• Optimise site speed, SEO performance, caching, data flow and reliability.
• Resolve bugs and incidents quickly, maintaining high uptime and user experience.

Infrastructure & Integrations

• Manage hosting environments, deployments, CI/CD pipelines and versioning.
• Maintain secure servers and optimised cloud environments.
• Oversee integrations with CRM, authentication, analytics, search and internal systems.
• Lead continual improvements in devops, automation and development tools.

Documentation & Quality Assurance

• Maintain clear documentation of architecture, codebases, APIs and workflows.
• Experience with test automation and implementation
• Implement robust testing, QA processes and release practices.
• Foster engineering discipline across both local and offshore developers.

What we are looking for

TECHNOLOGIES

· LEMP stack (Linux, NGINX, MySQL, PHP)

- Frontend development using modern JavaScript (ES6+), modular architecture, and Webpack-based builds

· Atlassian JIRA/Confluence, Bitbucket, ServiceDesk

· Strong skillset with AWS Infrastructure environments (EC2, RDS, S3, Cache)

· Good understanding of Agile methodology

· Understand CI/CD - Test Automation, Test Driven Development, and build automation using Jenkins

· Building APIs

Personal Qualities

• High level of ownership and accountability.
• Fast-paced, proactive and solutions-oriented.
• Strong communicator with the ability to lead and influence technical direction.
• Low ego, collaborative, and comfortable in a high-performance environment.
• Passionate about clean architecture, scalable systems and continuous improvement.

Please note there may be some delays in response time over the Christmas and New Year period and all applicants will be assessed from 12 Jan 2026.