About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses, which includes Jobstreet and JobsDB in Asia, 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.​

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). [In Malaysia, where SEEK’s Asia HQ is located, we received four accolades at the TalentCorp Life at Work Awards 2023, including first runner-up for Best International Organisation and champion for Best CHRO]. We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

About the Team 

Our Apps Platform team is responsible for the core architecture, infrastructure, operational practices, and design governance that enable our Candidate Domain teams to deliver high quality mobile experiences for our SEEK, Jobsdb, and Jobstreet mobile apps.  

Our ambition is to deliver world class apps that delight our candidates by leading teams to build consistent, beautiful, reliable, and secure apps at scale. We focus on operational, tactical and strategic initiatives that help maintain our platform health, scale app capability, deliver value at scale and enhance user experience. 

We are a cross-functional distributed agile team of engineers, product managers, designers, and analysts spread across Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. We welcome diverse thinking and are passionate about customer satisfaction, high quality engineering, and continuous improvement. 

About The Role 

As a Senior Android Engineer you will play a key technical role evolving the Android app platform through the delivery of frameworks, patterns, tooling, and best practices to enable our teams to deliver a high-quality mobile experience.  

We are looking for talented engineers with a strong customer focus, passion for mobile app design, and that share our philosophy for highly maintainable software engineering. 

You will be responsible for driving the technical alignment, engineering quality, and delivery of reliable and scalable software.  You will also coach/mentor software engineers, improve the engineering practices of the team, and contribute to enabling an inclusive team culture supportive of learning and continuous improvement. 

Key Accountabilities 

Build 

• Lead and guide other engineers to build, test, deploy and maintain high quality scalable and reliable software from development to production aligned to SEEK’s engineering practices. 
• Improve and maintain platform health, ensuring that our systems are reliable, resilient, and efficient. 
• Troubleshoot and manage production incidents through resolution. 
• Co-drive the design & delivery of platform and back-end experience APIs. 

Execute 

• Consistently write clean, well-tested, readable software, using secure coding practices, current patterns and tooling. 
• Lead improvements to the Apps Platform tooling, continuous delivery pipeline, operational and engineering practices. 
• Improve the engineering, quality practices, devops culture, agile delivery rituals and strengthen team capabilities. 
• Actively communicate with others in an effective, timely, and empathic manner. 
• Manage risks effectively ensuring they are communicated, managed, and mitigated appropriately. 
• Improve understanding of our apps platform users and our SEEK customers considering their needs in all aspects of development

So, what are we looking for?  

Experience 

• Engineering and maintaining high quality architecture, user experience, and long-lived codebases for commercial-scale Android Apps. 
• Architecting, building, and operating highly scalable, available, performant, and secure solutions with complex dependencies. 
• Leading engineering and technical solutions as part of a cross functional team in an agile development environment 
• Able to manage competing priorities, identify trade-offs/risks and manage technical and non-technical stakeholder expectations.  
• Experience upskilling, coaching, and developing junior engineers. 
• Able to coordinate, influence, motivate, and empower others to achieve outcomes. 

Technical Skills 

Essential 

• Experienced in developing highly scalable, available, performant, and secure native Android Apps. 
• Knowledge of software engineering principles, object-oriented programming and practices in the Android ecosystem 
• Strong sense of software craftsmanship writes clean, testable, effective, and communicable code, driving team engineering principles. 
• Experience driving design of and integration with backend services and user behavior metrics. 
• Experienced in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines using current practices, patterns, & tooling. 
• Familiarity with testing frameworks and test automation. 
• Experience with the operational deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of mobile app releases (e.g. App DevOps, feature toggle management, A/B test management, and metrics monitoring). 

Desirable 

• Practical experience with Kotlin, Coroutines, Koin, Jetpack Compose, Espresso, multi variant applications, multi-module applications. 
• Familiar with GraphQL and Typescript. 
• Experience with library development and maintenance. 
• Using development and operational tools in the public cloud (preferably AWS). 
• Drives a culture of continuous improvement and inspires such pursuit in others. 
• Contributes and participates in user groups, meetups, conferences, and or open-source projects. 
• Acts as an ambassador to SEEK helping attract excellent talent. 

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.