Lead Engineer - Mobile Apps Platform

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 experiences for our SEEK, Jobsdb, and Jobstreet mobile apps. Our ambition is to deliver world class apps that delight our candidates and hirers by leading teams to build consistent, beautiful, reliable, and secure apps at scale.

We work on a mixture of operational, tactical, and central initiatives that help maintain our platform health, improve the engineering experience, enable efficient delivery of value at scale, elevate the quality of our user experience, and grow our mobile apps capability at SEEK.

We are a multi-functional distributed agile team of Android/iOS engineers, product, design, and delivery specialists located across Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. We are driven by a strong sense of passion for our customers (internal teams and candidates/hirers), high quality engineering, and the continuous improvement of our platform to enable teams at SEEK to drive rapid value to our candidates/hirers.

We apply a combination of agile, extreme programming, and mobile best practices, supporting the software we release end to end, welcome diverse thinking, and are looking for ways to continuously improve the way we work.

About the role

We are looking for versatile engineers who are passionate about their craft, have a solid technical understanding of the Mobile Apps ecosystem, a strong customer focus, a deep care for people and a delivery mentality.

As the Lead Android Engineer you will lead the sustainable delivery of services/products for our Android Platform. You will ensure our solutions are technically fit for purpose, the team is healthy, and the engineers within it are even healthier.

You will work alongside other technical leaders to architect solutions, evolve delivery/technical practices of the team, lead the team to write high quality maintainable software, grow the capabilities of other engineers, and support their career development with effective line management.

As part of your remit, you’ll play a key role in driving our platform’s roadmap, partnering with product and other mobile technical leaders to deliver to our mobile ambition and SEEK’s overall technical strategy.

Responsibilities

Build

• Guide other engineers to build, test, deploy and maintain software from development through to production
• Strengthen current Software Engineering practices and improve existing DevOps culture
• Partner Staff Engineer in ensuring the platform health of our systems are, reliable, secure, resilient, and efficient
• Build and operate highly scalable and performant software in alignment with existing frameworks and SEEK’s technology strategy
• Troubleshoot and manage production incidents through to resolution including
• proactively managing on-call process, incident reviews and supporting documentation

Execute

• Strengthen engineering discipline and team capability
• Ensure adherence to Agile delivery rituals and practices (if required) and continuous improvement
• Actively connect with others in an effective, timely manner with empathy including key partners in other areas
• Consistently write clean, well-tested, readable software, using secure coding practices, current patterns and tooling
• Manage skill development of secure system design and coding practices.
• Ensures team alignment to SEEKs security principles.
• In depth understanding of your customers and consider their needs at the core of all development

Support

• Grow team member capabilities with effective line management & coaching
• Lead the wellbeing of the team by fostering safety, inclusivity, diversity and
• engagement/culture
• Improves teams’ abilities through coaching and sets example behaviour

Strengthen

• Lead the recruitment and onboarding of new hires
• Key contributor to communities of practice at SEEK
• Actively seek out learning opportunities for self and others through inviting and providing regular feedback

Essential Skills and Experience

• Working in a multi-functional software engineering team with some experience in
• supervising/coaching/mentoring Engineers
• Experience applying and improving continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices
• Support a culture that that promotes continuous improvement in a team environment.
• Writing well-tested, readable software, using secure coding practices, current patterns, and tooling
• Experience with the design, development, support, and maintenance of cloud first applications and APIs
• Experience using logging and monitoring/alerting tools that will support operational health
• Drive software development practices such as: Test Driven Development, Behavioural Driven Development, Clean Code
• Managing operational support duties, including on-call support and after hours work as required
• Ability to collaborate with various partners, focusing on outcomes which best serve the overall APAC strategy
• Ability to operate in team with geographically distributed team members
• Proactively sharing knowledge and skills to help other team members grow through coaching and mentoring
• Act as a SEEK engineering ambassador and help attract technical talent
• Driving collaboration and teamwork across teams
• Proactively contributing to internal or external professional communities of practice events and finding opportunities for team members to do so.

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.