Company Description
The SEEK Group
SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation. Find out more about us by visiting https://www.seek.com.au/about/.
‘Our Seek’ Principles
Purpose We help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. Principles
- Passion: We are passionate about our purpose, our customers and the community
- Team: We care about each other and collaborate to achieve together
- Delivery: We execute with excellence and achieve great results
- Future: We think and act for the long-term
Job Description
The Role Experienced autonomous professional responsible for improving technical alignment, health, and engineering practices within SEEK Group Engineering teams. Develop software in product/platform teams while coaching junior engineers and delivering user-centric, scalable solutions.
The Team Cross-functional, multi-disciplinary squads within APAC matrix structure serving internal/external customers (Candidate, Hirer, AIPS, Technology Platforms). Work with engineers of all levels, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Data Engineers, Business Analysts, UX/Visual Designers, and Data Analysts.
Key Accountabilities
Build
- Guide engineers in building, testing, deploying software from development to production
- Improve platform health ensuring reliable, resilient, efficient systems
- Drive software development strengthening engineering best practices
- Build highly scalable, performant cloud-first software aligned with SEEK's technology strategy
Execute
- Write clean, well-tested, readable software using secure coding practices
- Improve quality, engineering discipline, and team capability
- Strengthen Agile delivery and secure coding practices
- Provide operational support including on-call duties
Support
- Contribute to team safety, work-life balance, and well-being
- Key contributor to new hire onboarding
- Mentor others and create space for diverse opinions
Strengthen
- Contribute to communities of practice at SEEK
- Actively seek learning opportunities through feedback
Qualifications
Essential Requirements
- Experience creating/maintaining software in 2+ modern languages
- Cloud-first (AWS) application design, development, and support experience
- API, logging, monitoring/alerting experience
- Strong CI/CD, Design Patterns, and Data Modelling experience
- Modern development practices (TDD, BDD, Clean Code)
- Operational support and on-call experience
- Data-driven decision making
- Knowledge sharing and mentoring experience
Desirable
- Leadership experience in software engineering teams
- Proactive knowledge sharing and community contribution
- Online marketplace business experience
- Relevant tertiary qualifications
Personal Skills Positive attitude, analytical problem-solving, empathy, emotional intelligence, flexibility, growth mindset, clear communication, values trust and inclusion.