Lead Engineer - AIPS (Working Hybrid)

The Team 

Pricing and Performance is a large team and is responsible for solving some of the most exciting and challenging problems for SEEK. You will join a team of 40 data scientist, engineers, and product managers working across three problems spaces. This role is within the Pricing space. 

The Role  

We are looking for an experienced Lead Engineer to join the Pricing and Performance team to run the engineering side of the Pricing sub-team. It offers the opportunity to work in the high profile variable pricing space, work with a range of stakeholders, and evolve the AI/ML aspects of the pricing system.  

This will be a exciting role that incorporates:  

• System architecture – design the systems that meet your team's remit  
• Technical leadership – ensure that the systems being built meet SEEKs high standards  
• Delivery management – foster a culture of rapid delivery and ensure the team stays aligned to agreed roadmaps and timelines  
• People management – grow the engineers in your team  
• Cross functional team building – play a part in building a high performing team of engineers, data scientists and product managers  
• Stakeholder management – work with your peers from data science and product management, as well as stakeholders from across the business, to contribute to product evolution and other key decisions  

Ideal candidate experience: 

Programming and Technical Skills: 

• Python 
• Data Pipelines 
• SQL 
• Spark/Databricks 
• AWS 
• Java 
• Backend development 
• ML and ETL Pipelines 
• CI/CD and DevOps 

Leadership and Team Management: 

• Experience leading a team 
• Stakeholder management 
• Largely hands-on role (70% technical, 30% leadership) 
• Quarterly OKR and 12 month roadmap planning 

Relevant Background: 

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on data engineering or machine learning 

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.