SEEK

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.

The Team

Step into the dynamic world of our Alpha Domain team – think corporate muscle with a startup soul, powering growth and innovation for SEEK! You'll find a fast-paced environment fuelled by experimentation, rapid iteration, and a passion for turning ambitious ideas into reality. We operate with the agility of a startup, embracing change and beginning evolving requirements head-on across squads focused on various applications and initiatives driving growth across JobStreet, JobsDB, and SEEK brands, which helps over 150 million candidates find employment across APAC.

Collaboration is key, and you'll be working alongside a diverse group of dedicated individuals who are not afraid to challenge the status quo and push boundaries. If you thrive in ambiguity, are energised by solving sophisticated problems, and are driven to make a tangible impact on the job market across multiple countries, you'll feel right at home in our vibrant and forward-thinking team.

Job Description

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer within the team, this fully autonomous individual contributor role demands an exceptional level of technical competence and a comprehensive skillset across all facets of software engineering, from independently tackling sophisticated problem resolution and designing robust solution architectures to leading system implementation and driving critical technical decisions. In our dynamic, startup-like environment, your deep technical expertise and ability to navigate ambiguity will be essential as you contribute to rapid iterations, work with cross-functional teams such as Product, Data, Analytics and Growth, and mentor fellow engineers.

Key responsibilities include:

• Contributing to the technical approach for growth initiatives within SEEK.
• Helping in evolving delivery processes to continuously improve the developed applications.
• Contributing to SEEK’s overall technology strategy and aligning systems with that strategy.
• Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected, and follow current SEEK development practices.
• Maintaining platform health ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient, and cost effective.
• Driving customer-centric approach to ensure that we are delivering great outcomes for our customers.
• Facilitating the healthy tension between the desire for immediate delivery and the long-term viability of the code bases.
• Employing pragmatic coding practices, understanding when temporary solutions are vital for efficient learning and experimentation.
• Sharing operational support duties.

Qualifications

Experience

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in Agile software delivery methods and development with a focus on testing.
• Hands-on experience in estimating, planning, designing, implementing, testing and operating highly scalable, available, performant, maintainable and secure applications, including empowering other engineers by balancing support and autonomy.
• Applies relevant technologies’ knowledge to the development and improvement of software applications, being able to drive better technical decision at the team level.
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration and working with stakeholders to understand business challenges and customer needs, remove bottlenecks, and identify new opportunities for growth.
• Deep understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns and industry best practices.
• Knowledge of regulations and compliance (GDPR, PDPI), and quality assurance techniques.
• Experience working with geo-distributed teams.

Personal Skills

• Positive spirit and a clear sense of initiative.
• Has a growth mindset - flexible, open, and actively seeking opportunities to improve.
• Continuously learn and understand the business requirements, customer, and end-user feedback to further improve the products.
• Actively investing time in technical growth.
• Manage own time well, able to support fellow engineers and be critical on inefficiencies.
• Independently driven team-player who is proficient in both analysis and conceptualisation, driven by results and customer success.
• Ability to share new knowledge and tools to cultivate constructive conversations and improve team capabilities.
• Open-minded collaborator and clear communicator who can manage stakeholders' expectations.

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in building and maintaining software using JavaScript and Typescript.
• Builds software in at least two modern software development languages.
• Builds and maintains Continuous Delivery Pipelines using Agile practices, patterns and tooling.
• Builds software using secure coding practices and mitigates vulnerabilities.
• Solid understanding of modern stacks (e.g. Node.js, Express, GraphQL, Jest, React Testing Library, Apollo).
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming.
• Knowledge of building solutions deployed on AWS.

Additional Information

At SEEK, we are passionate about promoting a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purposeful business that works with heart.

Diversity of backgrounds and experiences is valued for creativity and innovation. We encourage applicants from all walks of life to join us in crafting a world-class workplace!