Job Description
Company Description
About SEEK
SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses 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 Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that’s inclusive where everyone’s unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.
Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.
Job Description
The Team
Hirer Engagement is a cross-functional product and engineering team within SEEK’s Hirer domain, focused on activating, retaining and engaging hirers by closing gaps in customer activation, engagement and experience that limit growth.
The team owns and optimises core logged-in hirer experiences including navigation and information architecture, the hirer dashboard and in-product nudges, activation and communications (such as banners, pop-ups and calls to action), notification preferences, account and team management (users, roles and permissions), and account administration and payments flows, including secure impersonation-related journeys.
Hirer Engagement works closely with Hirer Acquisition and other product teams across ANZ and Asia markets to reduce friction from registration to first job ad, drive ongoing product adoption via targeted in-product experiences, and ensure compliant, auditable management of hirer accounts and high-risk actions.
Their mandate is to maximise hirer value and long-term engagement through data-informed experimentation, research and iterative improvements to these foundational hirer-facing surfaces.
We play a pivotal role in Company level OKRs like growing new hirers segment in all markets we operate.
We have adopted a breadth of Technologies like React/Typescript, GraphQL for front end development, and Node.js/Typescript to build APIs/Services, AWS as our infrastructure platform and Practices like Agile, CI/CD, Automated testing, Micro services to build amazing products.
About the role
A Staff Engineer at SEEK is a senior technical leader and a key driver of engineering excellence across teams and domains. You will set technical direction, establish and scale best practices, and ensure they are adopted consistently. You’ll shape technology roadmaps, influence architectural decisions across systems, and raise the bar on reliability, security, and performance.
If you are passionate about
- playing variety of roles like Tech Lead, Architect, Coach/Mentor and proficient Programmer
- writing clean code that not only solves complex problems, but also inspire other engineers to strive for high quality of code,
- retire legacy technology
- architect/build highly scalable systems
- innovation and thrive in a collaborative environment,
We invite you to join us in revolutionizing the way we build and deliver software at SEEK Group. Apply now to embark on an exciting journey of growth and impact!
Responsibilities
- Build and operate highly scalable and performant software in alignment with SEEK’s technology strategy.
- Improve platform health, ensuring that our systems are, reliable, resilient, and efficient according to SEEK development practices.
- Coach and mentor Software Engineers. Lead, coach, and mentor Software Engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence.
- Ensure platform health for services owned are aligned to SEEK’s technical metrics goals.
- Improve Agile delivery practices through collaboration with the Engineering Manager and Business Analyst.
- Act as a developer advocate, building relationships with other engineering teams to ensure the right problems are addressed.
- Having experience in distributed systems is a plus
You will work with various roles, including Software Engineers at multiple levels such as Lead Engineer, Engineering Manager, Business Analyst / Iteration Manager, and Platform Engineers
Qualifications
Skills and experience
- Has created and maintained software in two or more modern software development languages (Typescript/.Net, Node.js, React etc).
- Experience with the design, development, support, and maintenance of cloud first applications, preferably AWS (Dynamo DB, Lambda etc).
- Strong experience with Design Patterns.
- Develop/Lead Technical Roadmaps which communicate and guide the evolution of services/systems/platforms
- Experience with software observabilities (logging, tracing, monitoring/alerting).
- Experience applying and improving continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to influence and lead technical decisions within the team and across the organisation.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in an engineering platform space.
Additional Information
Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:
- Annual Performance Bonus Plan
- Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
- Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
- The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
- SEEKer Support, a confidential service that offers employees up to six sessions with a mental health professional of your choice
- Tailored career development planning (including Education Assistance Program)
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 candidates with the 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.
