iOS Senior Engineer (Apps Design) – Mobile Apps Platform

About the Team

Our Mobile 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 mobile
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 cross-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 talented engineers with a customer centric mindset, 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 Senior Engineer (Apps Design) you will play a key role in the delivery of design
system practices, standardized UI components, and frameworks that will empower our
teams to create seamless and delightful mobile experiences for our iOS platform.
With your solid experience in front-end architecture, passion for elegant UI design and
delivery of scalable intuitive frameworks, you will collaborate closely and influence our
engineering, product, and design teams to translate our design ambition into beautiful and engaging experiences for our customers.

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

Key Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of 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.
• Embrace innovation participating in the identification of new opportunities to adopt emerging technologies, design system trends, platform interaction patterns, and best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team and influence the strategy, planning, and implementation of technical roadmaps and OKRs that can deliver on SEEK’s design vision.
• Contribute, motivate, and lead by example in the adoption of technology, design, and delivery best practices such as inclusive design principles (accessibility), agile delivery, dev ops, and platform engineering.
• Coach, mentor, and support the growth of engineering capabilities for junior team members.

• Understanding of native app design standards (Apple Human Interface Guidelines), accessibility standards, and cross-platform design.
• Keen eye for design, high attention to detail, and push the level of craft in the apps and design system, valuing polished, delightful, intuitive, and engaging experiences.
• Passionate about solving complex UI problems and delivering simple solutions that can scale across iOS/Android platforms.
• Have experience leading initiatives in cross-functional teams that contributed to the delivery of frameworks, UI components, APIs, and practices used by other teams to deliver complex front-ends for mobile apps.
• Proven experience building scalable solutions for comprehensive design systems, front-end architecture, and component libraries for iOS platforms.
• Experience rolling out visual languages and implementing strategies to maintain cohesive and consistent visual style across iOS, Android, and Web platforms.
• Familiar with inclusive design practices and implementing UI accessible components for large mobile apps.
• Have influencing and coaching skills have allowed you to educate engineering teams on design best practices, the adoption and implementation of the design system, engineering practices and accessibility standards.
• You are a humble team player, with ability to build inclusive space for team members to contribute and connect people to drive an outcome

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• 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
• 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.