Company Description
About SEEK
SEEK operates market-leading online employment marketplaces, including Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.
Founded and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK has grown into a multinational technology company with over 3,300 employees and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
SEEK’s presence spans Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Additionally, SEEK has minority investments in employment marketplaces in China, South Korea and Bangladesh.
SEEK develops and applies innovative data and technology tools to facilitate high-quality matching and improve reliability of marketplace information.
In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, SEEK was recognised as one of Australia’s Top Ten Places to Work in Technology in the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards. SEEK was also named a 5-Star Employer of Choice by HRD Asia in 2024 and won four accolades at TalentCorp’s Life at Work Awards 2023 in Malaysia.
Job Description
The Role
The successful candidate will be an experienced Senior Engineer with demonstrable experience in all stages of the development lifecycle.
Day to day tasks include:
Participating in the design and definition of software components to meet your Squads remit, considering robustness, fault tolerance, scalability and performance.
Being responsible for your service in production, its consistent uptime, troubleshooting, non-functional SLAs.
Ensuring that systems are adequately developed, tested, and are fit for purpose.
Collaborating closely with Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Analysts to deliver excellent software for our partners in an agile environment.
Working in a passionate, dynamic, growing environment with the ability to learn and adapt quickly to new methodologies and technologies.
Driving towards continuous delivery; Act as an enabler for your team members, removing obstacles from their paths and identifying potentials for delivery, business and process improvements.
Strive for technical excellence; Help communicate the healthy tension between the desire for immediate delivery and the long-term viability of the code base.
Support experiments to assess performance of various algorithms and use the results to iteratively improve the platform.
Qualifications
As we deal largely with data and ML, Python and/or Java is essential. We will consider applications from people who may not be a perfect match for our tech stack, but are willing to learn. It is important to have a strong background in backend software engineering (7+ years of experience) and a keen interest in data or ML engineering.
Ideally you will have experience with the following:
Python
Java
Data pipelines
SQL
Spark/Databricks
AWS
CI/CD and DevOps
ML pipelines
In addition to using technical knowledge to drive features and improvements, you are comfortable and show experience with:
Working with rapidly evolving designs and requirements
Working well within a team
Excellent interpersonal skills
Curious mind and strong problem-solving skills
Autonomy, responsibility and striving to make a difference
Positive, can-do attitude with a clear sense of initiative
Takes responsibility and accountability for the overall solution
Strong focus on creating testable software, using standards and conventions to ensure quality
Good understanding of secure coding practices
Additional Information
The Team
Pricing and Performance is a large team and is responsible for solving some of the most exciting and challenging problems for SEEK. You will join a team of 40 data scientist, engineers, and product managers working across three problem spaces.
Why SEEK
- Extensive employee benefits
- Hybrid working mode
- Mature and collaborative working culture
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.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.
