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.

The Role 

A Staff Engineer is a technical lead role and senior member of our Engineering teams. A Staff Engineer is an in-team technical specialist whose primary focus is to design and build fit-for purpose solutions whilst strengthening the health of the technical systems/platforms/products within the team. As a technology leader, you are accountable for the overall technical alignment, engineering quality, health, capability and productivity of team. You will drive continuous improvement and customer outcomes. 

You demonstrate passion for your craft by having in-depth technical understanding of the codebase/systems/tools/platforms in the team in which you work.  

Key partners include: 

• Engineering Manager 

• Product Managers 

• Engineers 

• UI/UX Designers 

• Commercial Excellence Team 

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensure systems are fit for purpose, well architected and follow SEEK development practices.
• Lead the team in exemplifying the development of clean, well-tested, readable software, applying secure coding practices, current patterns, and tooling, while also fostering secure system design.
• Drive platform health by ensuring that our systems are aligned to SEEK’s technical practices & metrics.
• Uplift and embed technical practices in the Engineering team, design and lead a DevOps Culture.
• Ensures team alignment to SEEKs security principles.
• Support the Engineering Manager in Capacity Planning, Risk Management, scoping and prioritisation of technical work and being a point of contact for technical solutions.
• Help facilitates the balanced tension between the desire for immediate delivery and the long-term viability of the code bases.
• Consider customer outcomes and how the systems connect to their needs.
• Strengthen team member technical capabilities through technical coaching, mentoring, instruction and example behaviour.

Experience

• Leading a diverse & agile software engineering team
• Improving how we build, deploy and maintain working quality software
• Crafting and operating highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions
• Growing engineers personal and technical skills through coaching and mentoring
• Architected, built, and operated highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions
• Led operational support duties, including on-call support and after hours work as the need arises

Personal Skills

• Influences and motivates others, with a positive demeanour and clear sense of initiative
• Self-aware and proactive on continuous improvement and continual learning
• Comfortable looking after uncertainty and working in a fast-paced environment
• Breaks problems down, analyses constituent parts, proposes and delivers creative solutions
• Pragmatic, collaborator with a growth mindset
• Clear communicator who is able to handle
• collaborator expectations, facilitate groups and resolve conflicts
• Focuses on outcomes over outputs
• Builds trust, safety and inclusion in teams
• Uses data to drive decision making
• Capable of rapidly generating ideas and initiatives, accompanied by proof of concept.

Technical Skills

• Proven experience building and maintaining software written in TypeScript, Node JS & React.
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming
• Proven understanding of highly available systems and web scale architecture with knowledge of clean architecture, clean code and domain-driven design
• Design, develop, support and maintain cloud (AWS) native applications
• Experience developing systems which efficiently use AWS services such as ECS, EKS, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Event-Bridge, CloudFormation & CDK
• Experience with database technologies including MongoDB & DynamoDB
• Experience in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines such as Buildkite
• Experience with integration testing
• Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities
• Experience working with monitoring & observability tools such as Datadog & Splunk

Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Experience

• Leading lean thinking & agile practices
• Service reliability engineering
• Supporting product experiments and hypothesis driven development
• Setting technical practices and processes that enable performing software teams.
• An interest in software testing or UI Component Libraries.
• Experience in recruiting and retaining talent

Personal Skills

• Influences and motivates others
• Drives a culture of continual improvement
• Visualises technical complexity to mixed audiences
• Improves others through guiding and providing regular feedback

The Team 

The SEEK Recruiter Network (SRN) helps organizations fill their most critical roles by connecting them with specialist recruiters they can trust. We work with small to medium businesses that have typically struggled to fill a role and connect them with a specialist recruiter who can support them in filling that job vacancy. 

 Split between offices in Melbourne, KL, and the Philippines, the team values embrace working across multiple locations and flexible working arrangements, boasting a large diversity of team members from different cultures and nationalities. 

Job Posting Tips:

• Mature Work Culture & Environment
• Hybrid Work Mode
• Extensive Employee Benefits
• Permanent Basis

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.