Company Description
About SEEK
At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.
By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.
Why join us?
Be part of a multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere. We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment.
As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.
Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.
Job Description
About the role
As a Senior Software Engineer (Android Platform) at SEEK, you'll join our Core Apps team - a cross-functional distributed agile team spanning Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. We maintain the core architecture, infrastructure, and operational practices that enable our teams to deliver high-quality mobile experiences for SEEK, Jobsdb, and Jobstreet apps.
You'll work in a fast-paced, supportive environment tackling complex challenges that directly impact people's lives. Your focus will be evolving our Android platform infrastructure alongside application codebase and supporting tooling, including CI/CD build pipelines, observability tools, and performance optimisation. You'll drive technical platform alignment, deliver reliable and scalable solutions, and mentor engineers on platform development best practices.
Our team combines Android/iOS engineers, platform engineers, product managers, designers, and specialists driven by passion for customers, high-quality engineering, and delivering rapid value to candidates and hirers.
Responsibilities
- Lead development of scalable platform infrastructure for Android development including build pipeline optimisation and automated testing.
- Optimise, troubleshoot, and enhance the Android application codebase for performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Implement observability frameworks by integrating monitoring solutions and configuring performance profiling tools.
- Implement cloud service integrations and manage infrastructure automation.
- Optimise build systems, dependency management, and artifact distribution.
- Troubleshoot and resolve platform incidents, providing operational support including on-call duties if required.
- Coach and mentor engineers on platform practices and improve team engineering capabilities.
- Contribute to communities of practice at SEEK while creating inclusive environments for feedback and different perspectives.
Qualifications
Essential Skills and experience
- Strong native Android development experience with infrastructure focus or demonstrated interest in platform engineering.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling optimization, build system internals, and deployment automation.
- Proficiency with Gradle build system, optimisation, and multi-module project configuration.
- Understanding of Android toolchain, SDK management, and build environment standardization.
- Experience operating and maintaining CI/CD platforms with infrastructure monitoring.
- Proficiency in implementing observability solutions including logging, metrics, performance monitoring, and crash reporting.
- Knowledge of AWS or similar cloud services for mobile development workflows.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with deployment and operations teams.
Additional Information
Perks and benefits
At SEEK we offer:
- Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
- The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
- Frequent events including sports days, annual Christmas party, hackathon, and trivia
At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.
Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.
For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.
