Senior Android Platform Engineer

About the role 

As a Senior Android Platform Engineer at SEEK, you'll join our Core Apps team - a cross-functional distributed agile team spanning Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. We maintain the core architecture, infrastructure, and operational practices that enable our teams to deliver high-quality mobile experiences for SEEK, Jobsdb, and Jobstreet apps.

You'll work in a fast-paced, supportive environment tackling complex challenges that directly impact people's lives. Your focus will be on evolving our Android platform infrastructure alongside application codebase and supporting tooling, including CI/CD build pipelines, observability tools, and performance optimisation. You'll drive technical platform alignment, deliver reliable and scalable solutions, and mentor engineers on platform development best practices.

Our team combines Android/iOS engineers, platform engineers, product managers, designers, and specialists driven by passion for customers, high-quality engineering, and delivering rapid value to candidates and hirers.

Responsibilities 

• Develop scalable platform infrastructure for Android development including build pipeline optimisation and automated testing.
• Improve the Android codebase for performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Optimise Gradle build configuration, dependency management, and artifact distribution.
• Provide operational and platform support.
• Mentor engineers on platform practices and improve team engineering capabilities.
• Contribute to communities of practice at SEEK while creating inclusive environments for feedback and different perspectives.

Essential Skills and experience 

• Strong native Android development experience with Kotlin.
• Experience operating and maintaining mobile CI/CD, Gradle scripts, and deployment automation.
• Demonstrated interest in platform engineering and developer experience.
• Knowledge of AWS or similar cloud services.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with DevOps teams.

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
• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Frequent events including sports days, year-end party, hackathon, and trivia
• 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.