Lead 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 Lead Engineer (Apps Design) you will play a key leadership role in the delivery of design system practices, standardized UI components, and frameworks that will empower our teams to create seamless and fabulous mobile experiences for our iOS and Android platforms.

Through your deep passion for elegant UI design and delivery of scalable intuitive frameworks, you will lead our engineering, product, and design teams to translate our design ambition into beautiful and engaging experiences for our customers.

You will identify new opportunities that can redefine our design system, incorporate new trends in iOS/Android user-interaction, and apply inclusive design that can elevate the user experience offered through our platform.

You will also manage the growth and career development of software engineers, improve engineering practices of the team, and drive an inclusive team culture, encouraging of learning and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of the design system, front-end architecture, UI frameworks, and governance processes to maintain a consistent and cohesive experience in alignment with SEEK’s design language.
• Lead the design and implementation of frameworks, APIs, and tooling that is easy to use, robust, scalable, and highly performant.
• Drive innovation by identifying new opportunities to adopt emerging technologies, design system trends, and platform interaction patterns.
• Partner with delivery, design, product, and cross-platform technical leaders to strategize, plan, and implement technical roadmaps, goals and milestones that can deliver on SEEK’s design vision.
• Advocate and lead the adoption of technology, design, and delivery best practices such as inclusive design principles (accessibility), agile delivery, dev ops, and platform engineering.

Essential Skills and Experience

• You have strong understanding of native app design language (Google Material Design, Apple Human Interface Guidelines), accessibility standards, and cross-platform design.
• You have a critical eye for design, like to sweat the details, and push the level of craft in the apps and design system, valuing polished, delightful, intuitive, and engaging experiences.
• You have extensive experience leading engineers or multi-functional teams to create frameworks, UI components, APIs, and practices used by other teams to deliver sophisticated front-ends for mobile apps.
• Proven experience leading, building, and scaling comprehensive design systems, front-end architecture, and component libraries for Android and/or iOS platforms.
• You will have a track record facilitating the roll out of visual languages and implementing strategies to maintain cohesive and consistent visual style across mobile apps.
• Your strong facilitation and mentoring skills have allowed you to educate engineering teams on design practices, the adoption and implementation of the design system, engineering practices, and accessibility standards.
• You are the go-to person when it comes to standardizing UI components, achieving design consistency, designing components, and streamlining collaboration between engineering and design teams.
• You are passionate and interested in supporting career development, capability growth, and coaching of people.
• You are a humble team member, with proven track record to build relationships and connect people across multiple teams and partners.

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.