Job description
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.
About Jora
Jora is an employment marketplace business, headquartered in Melbourne and operating on a global scale. As a start-up within SEEK, Jora has a warm & unique close-knit family subculture within SEEK, comprising a diverse group of high-performing individuals that share a common desire to make a real difference, on a global scale.
The Jora platform and teams aggregate employment opportunities from thousands of different job sites to offer jobseekers the largest source of job opportunities in real time, in addition to engaging employers across markets to build strong direct relationships and experiences.
With a customer-centric mantra, Jora is focused on continually improving and expanding its product offering to drive fantastic customer experiences that fuels rapid business growth, testing the edge and driving innovation for SEEK. Find out more about Jora by visiting: https://www.jora.com/
Headquartered in Melbourne with offices in Sydney and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Jora team includes more than 60 developers, product strategists & analysts, operations staff and sales people. We are an extremely diverse organization with over 20 different nationalities represented, and work together as a truly digital remote agile organisation, with a strong focus on cross-functional collaboration and everyone willing to roll up their sleeves.
Job Description
The Role
Senior Software Developer (SSD) is a key member of our engineering teams. SSDs are responsible for technical alignment, engineering quality, capability and productivity of an engineering team. SSDs participate in continuous improvement and customer outcomes.
Key stakeholders include:
• Staff Engineers
• Engineering Manager
• Product Manager
• UX Designers
Key responsibilities include:
• Aligning systems to Jora’s overall technology strategy
• Building systems fit for purpose and follow current Jora and SEEK development practices
• Contribute to platform health, ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient and cost
effective
• Focus on delivering outcomes for our customers
• Share operational support duties
• Exemplify quality and engineering discipline to uplift team capability
The Team
The Engineering team is the largest team in Jora with more than 40 engineers. The team is split across the four main domains of aggregation, candidate, employer and native apps. Operating in a true start up environment and culture, we love to take a data driven and analytical approach to developing, prioritising and monitoring production features that drive outcomes for our customers. Split between offices in Melbourne, Sydney and KL, the team values and embraces working across multiple locations and flexible working arrangements and boasts a large diversity in team members from different cultures and nationalities.
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Experience
• Strong hands-on experience developing native iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI, with a solid grasp of Apple’s design principles and App Store submission processes.
• Proven experience in a collaborative software engineering environment, with exposure to leading or contributing to technical solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute across other domains such as Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose), backend API development, and DevOps/CICD practices.
• Comfortable working in a cross-functional team without dedicated QAs or BAs, supporting the full product lifecycle.
Personal Skills
• Outcomes-focused, with a drive to create value and enhance user experience over simply completing tasks.
• Proactive in learning and improvement, with the confidence to take initiative and operate in ambiguous situations.
• Clear communicator with strong written and verbal skills, able to engage with teams across regions and cultural contexts.
• Collaborative team player who fosters trust, inclusion, and a passion for technology within the team.
• Able to analyse complex challenges, break them down, and propose creative, pragmatic solutions.
Technical Skills
• Deep expertise in iOS development (Swift, SwiftUI) and understanding of the mobile platform ecosystem.
• Familiarity with Android (Kotlin) development, backend technologies (e.g. API design), and DevOps/CICD tools.
• Experience contributing to manual and automated testing, and occasionally performing business analysis to align technical work with product needs.
• Understanding of secure coding practices, modern software delivery pipelines, and testable code design.
• Willingness and ability to learn new technologies and expand across the stack as needed.
Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Experience
• Experience working on mobile-first platforms or consumer-facing mobile apps at scale.
• Exposure to start-up environments or small cross-functional teams with end-to-end ownership.
• Polyglot development background or interest in working across multiple tech stacks
Personal Skills
• Encourages and mentors others through feedback and technical guidance.
• Identifies opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement.
• Able to visualise and articulate technical concepts to varied audiences.
• Influences cross-team collaboration and drives alignment across domains (e.g., Android-iOS integration
Desired Values
- Believed in aiming high to deliver world-class results and yet, not forgetting to care for others
Additional Information
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.
