SEEK's portfolio of diverse businesses, which includes Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia, makes 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.
Job Description
Staff Engineer is a technology leader and key member of our engineering teams.
In this leadership role you will shape the future vision of the team, as well as ensuring our solutions are meeting our business and technical needs across SEEK's Asia and Pacific markets.
You will be responsible for the overall technical alignment, health, capability and performance of the platform.
You will also provide people leadership through mentoring, developing or line leading other engineers.
Key stakeholders include:
Engineering Manager
Product Manager
Engineers
UX Designers
Key responsibilities include:
Contributing to Jora's overall technology strategy and aligning systems with that strategy.
Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected and follow current Jora development practices.
Maintaining platform health, ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient and cost effective.
Driving customer focus to ensure we are delivering valuable outcomes for our customers.
Strengthening the team's technical capabilities through coaching and mentoring.
Helping to drive cross-team collaboration, decision making and accountability.
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Leading a diverse software engineering team
Improving how we build, deploy and maintain working quality software
Designing and operating highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions
Operating in a distributed team environment
Growing engineers personal and technical skills through coaching and mentoring
Personal Skills:
Influences and motivates others, with a positive attitude and clear sense of initiative
Self-aware and proactive on continuous improvement and continual learning
Comfortable dealing with uncertainty
Breaks problems down, analyses constituent parts, proposes and delivers creative solutions
Pragmatic, open minded collaborator with a growth mindset
Clear communicator who is able to lead collaborator expectations, facilitate groups and resolve conflicts
Focuses on outcomes over outputs
Builds trust, safety and inclusion in teams
Technical Skills:
Validated experience building and maintaining software written in Ruby / Ruby on Rails
Design, develop, support and maintain cloud (AWS) native applications
Experience developing systems which effectively use AWS services and infrastructure as code (e.g.
CDK, Cloudformation, Lambda, etc.)
Experience with multiple database technologies including PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis
Solid understanding of highly available systems and web scale architecture
Experience in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines such as Buildkite or Teamcity
Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming
Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities
Uses data to drive decision making
Ability to quickly learn new programming languages and technologies
Comfortable with HTML, CSS and Javascript
Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Supporting product experiments and hypothesis driven development
Setting technical practices and processes that enable performant software teams.
An interest in Distributed Systems Observability, software testing or UI Component Libraries.
The Team:
The Engineering team is the largest team in Jora with more than 30 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.
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.
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