Senior Software Engineer

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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 for the fourth year in a row. 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
Indirect Platform serve as custodians of SEEK's integration platform. We host business-to-business products that enable integration partners to access our online recruitment marketplace. We provide a stable, secure, and performant access layer comprising a GraphQL API, webhooks, authentication, and authorization. The team also manage developer documentation, onboarding of hirers and partners, and internal support tools.

Day to day work involves a mix of autonomous project work and regular rituals, with stand-ups, retrospectives, and security & reliability reviews. We emphasise collaborative problem solving, continuous learning, and maintaining standards for security, reliability, and performance. Our technical initiatives aim to unify our technology stack, improve operational efficiency, and drive adoption of best practices. By developing critical platform components and fostering a cohesive platform strategy, we aim to deliver reliable services to our partners while supporting SEEK's broader business objectives.

About the role
A senior software engineer is an experienced member of our Engineering group. They are a fully autonomous professional, responsible for improving the technical alignment, health, and engineering practices within a team. You will develop software in a product & platform subdomain, contribute to engineering quality, coach and mentor other software engineers, and demonstrate passion for your craft through user centric, reliable, and scalable solutions.

Key accountabilities

• Plan & lead technical initiatives within the team, providing clarity and support for other software engineers to deliver solutions that are fit for purpose.
• Build, test, deploy, and maintain quality software from development to production, with clean, secure, and well-tested code that adheres to best current practices.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence, ensuring systems are built and run in compliant, efficient, reliable, and resilient manner.
• Role model effective incident management & resolution through a combination of deep domain expertise and technical troubleshooting ability.
• Collaborate effectively and empathetically with peers and stakeholders, providing space for diverse opinions and feedback.
• Foster a positive team environment, contributing to the safety, work-life balance, and wellbeing of team members.
• Mentor new hires and support the growth of team members.

Qualifications

Essential skills & experience

• Modern engineering practice: Proficiency in building and maintaining software in a build-run team context using two or more modern programming languages. Experience with data modelling, design patterns, and uplifting team engineering culture.
• Cloud & distributed computing: Proficiency in design considerations and failure scenarios for distributed computing. Experience with microservice architectures that mix synchronous (HTTP server) and asynchronous (background worker) components in a cloud environment.
• AWS technologies: Experience in a business-critical environment using AWS services, including DynamoDB, ECS (Fargate), Lambda, RDS (Aurora PostgreSQL), SNS, and SQS.
• CI/CD & observability: Demonstrated ability to apply and improve continuous integration & continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices. Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting to uphold software reliability and performance.
• Technical leadership: Experience leading the end-to-end delivery of technical initiatives, empowering other engineers by balancing support and autonomy, and providing a long-term view of the technical direction of software systems.

Desirable skills & experience

• Proficiency in developing Apollo GraphQL servers and Node.js HTTP servers, sharing code through monorepo tooling and npm packaging.
• Experience as a consumer and/or producer of an external-facing integration platform, including documentation practices, schema design, and support modelling.
• Experience with data analytics (Amazon Athena, SQL), distributed caching (Cloudflare CDN, Amazon ElastiCache), edge compute (Cloudflare workers, Lambda@Edge), event-driven architectural components (EventBridge, Kinesis, Step Functions), security infrastructure (IdP, WAF), and Kubernetes.
• Ability to contribute across the full stack, from developing new back-end CRUD services to query engines, data pipelines, and administrative user interfaces.

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.
• SEEK is committed to operating sustainably, certified carbon neutral for its business operations (through Climate Active), purchasing renewable energy for our office and working-from-home emissions and a target for net zero by 2030.
• 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).
• Professional development sessions with industry leading guest speakers.
• Free income protection insurance.
• Access to a wide range of discounts on things such as health insurance, fitness, food, travel, accommodation plus many more.
• Frequent events including sports days, annual Christmas party, hackathon, and trivia.
• Free kick-start breakfast every morning and fresh fruit available all day in our offices.
• Casual dress – every day.

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.