Android Engineer (Apps Design) - Core Apps Platform

The Team

Our Core Apps Platform team is responsible for the core architecture, infrastructure, operational practices, and design governance that enable our Candidate Domain teams to deliver high quality mobile experiences for our SEEK, Jobsdb, and Jobstreet apps.

Our ambition is to deliver world class apps that delight our candidates by enabling teams to build consistent, beautiful, reliable, and secure apps at scale. We focus on tactical and strategic initiatives that help maintain our platform health, introduce new platform capabilities, and elevate the user experience.

We are a multi-functional distributed agile team of engineers, product managers, designers, and analysts spread across Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. We welcome diverse thinking and are passionate about customer satisfaction, high quality engineering, and continuous improvement.

We are looking for versatile engineers with a customer centric mentality, an exceptional eye for detail, highly passionate about crafting polished experiences and engineering solutions that can be easily scaled and maintained.

About the role

As the Android Engineer (Apps Design) you will support delivery of system practices, standardized UI components, and frameworks that will empower our teams to create seamless and fabulous mobile experiences for our Android platform.

With your experience in front-end architecture, passion for elegant UI design and delivery of scalable intuitive frameworks, you will collaborate with our engineering, product, and design teams to translate our design ambition into beautiful and engaging experiences for our customers.

You will contribute to find opportunities that can redefine our design system, incorporate new trends in Android user-interaction, and apply inclusive design best practices that can elevate the user experience offered through our platform.

Responsibilities

• Deliver initiatives across the design system, front-end architecture, frameworks, and governance process to enable a consistent and cohesive experience in alignment with SEEK’s design language.
• Implement frameworks, APIs, and tooling that is easy to use, robust, scalable, and highly performant.
• Contribute to the team’s innovation process identifying new opportunities to adopt emerging technologies, design system trends, and platform interaction patterns,
• Collaborate with multi-functional team and support the strategy, planning, and implementation of technical roadmaps and goals and milestones that can deliver on SEEK’s design vision.
• Adopt technology, design, and delivery best practices such as inclusive design principles (accessibility), agile delivery, dev ops, and platform engineering.
• Contribute to improve the team’s capabilities and culture through knowledge sharing and support of team members.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Good understanding of native app design standards (Google Material Design), accessibility standards, and cross-platform design.
• You have a keen eye for design, attention to detail, and push the level of craft in the apps and design system, valuing polished, delightful, intuitive, and engaging experiences.
• You are passionate about solving sophisticated UI problems and delivering simple solutions that can scale across iOS/Android platforms.
• Experience collaborating with multi-functional teams to deliver frameworks, UI components, APIs, and practices used by other teams to build complex front-ends for mobile apps.
• You will have experience building scalable solutions for design systems, front-end architecture, and component libraries for Android platforms.
• You have experience rolling out visual languages and familiar with strategies to maintain cohesive and consistent visual style across iOS, Android, and Web platforms.
• You are familiar with inclusive design practices and implementing UI accessible components for apps
• You are an open-minded team member, with natural curiosity to embrace new challenges, learn, and develop new skills.

Perks and benefits

At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• 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 with 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.