Senior iOS Engineer - Profile Experience

The Team

You will be an integral part of our Profile Experience (PREX) engineering team, with responsibilities including contributing to ideation and implementation of product features, partnering with Android and web engineers on the design of our shared backend API, technical alignment with the broader iOS platform team, and ensuring we are delivering great outcomes for our customers.

Our Profile Experience team are responsible for developing and delivering the most useful career profile through which job candidates can find a great job and grow their career: a profile that is preferred by hirers; helping a candidate find, be found and stand out for their best job match.

We are an agile distributed team comprised of team members located in various cities throughout Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and New Zealand. In the team we value, and are driven by, each team member’s contribution to continuous improvement through analysis of candidate needs and behaviour, and a positive mindset toward learning, adapting and evolving our team capabilities and approaches to how we deliver value to candidates and hirers.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior iOS Engineer who is motivated by delighting our iOS app users with great user experience (UX) and has passion for designing & developing iOS product features by working with a multi-functional team on creating a world-class product experience. You will be delivering this value in the product area of the SEEK Profile where our users list their work history, upload their CV, set their next role preferences and similar, and then ultimately use this information in the job application process, or when being found and approached by hirers based this same information.

You will also play a meaningful role in helping shape and sometimes implement the design of our Profile server APIs and - as a member of the wider Candidate iOS app team - helping drive our iOS app platform technical strategy and implementation, delivering a modern and easy-to-develop-for mobile app across our SEEK, Jobsdb, and Jobstreet brands that operate in the Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines markets

Responsibilities

With commercial-based experience in native iOS app development, your role will be primarily responsible for:

• The design, implementation & delivery of Profile product features in the SEEK / Jobstreet / Jobsdb iOS app.
• Collaborating across the full engineering community at SEEK, contributing to the evolution of SEEK’s development practices & principles.
• Contributing to the team’s engineering maturity on mobile app related approaches and demonstrating a continuous improvement attitude.
• Contributing to platform health and participating in app release management and production monitoring.
• Participating in out-of-hours on-call duties, ensuring the health of our production systems (additional pay)
• Actively participating in team ceremonies such as planning, goal setting, retrospectives and stand-ups.

We believe having the following experiences in previous roles will position you well to be successful in this role:

• Being passionate in delivering product features direct to customers and ensuring they have a fabulous mobile app experience
• Custodianship mentality and long-term ownership with a focus on iterative evolution and refactoring of a product and codebase, being patient to implement major changes over a longer period of time, and being able to inspire change by getting agreement and communicating trade-offs to your technical, delivery and product partners
• Working in a team and being energised by co-driving the direction of our solutions, while being comfortable with dealing with uncertainty and happy to problem-solve with others as we go

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experienced in developing highly scalable, available, performant, and secure native iOS Apps.
• Knowledge of software engineering principles, object-oriented programming and practices in the iOS ecosystem
• Strong sense of software craftsmanship, writes clean, testable, effective, and communicable code, driving team engineering principles.
• Experience driving design of and integration with backend services and user behavior metrics.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks and test automation.

Desirable Skills

• Practical experience with Swift, SwiftUI, XCTest, XCUITest, Grand Central Dispatch, multi variant applications, multi-module applications.
• Experienced in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines using current practices, patterns, & tooling.
• Familiar with GraphQL and Typescript.
• Drives a culture of continuous improvement and inspires such pursuit in others.
• Contributes and participates in user groups, meetups, conferences, and or open-source projects.

Other Qualifications, Skills, Attributes and Experience

• Positive, ‘can-do’ attitude with a clear sense of initiative
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Empathy and high emotional intelligence
• Openness and flexibility to different viewpoints
• Open minded collaborator with a growth mindset
• Values trust, safety, and inclusion in 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
• A commitment to operating sustainably, a certified carbon neutral business operation, with the target of 100% renewable energy by 2025, and net zero by 2030
• Frequent events including sports days, year-end party, hackathon, and trivia

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.