Senior Software Engineer (Hybrid Working) - FE

The Team
The Online Identity Experience core objective is to is to enable a secure, trusted and seamless customer identity & access management experience for our customers. By cultivating relationships and influencing architectural solutions and delivery approaches, we are instrumental in scaling out SEEK’s Identity experience to our customer base across ANZ and Asia.We recently transitioned from one large team into two distinct teams, each with well-defined ownership boundaries. Despite this division into an experience and a services team, we remain close-knit, drawing strength from our diverse backgrounds and experiences. With team members spanning Australia and Malaysia, we embrace collaboration and community, readily helping and engaging in constructive design discussions to align on a path forward.As an experience team, we autonomously steer our roadmap in close collaboration with our customers. We forge our unique methodologies, blending passion with pragmatism in all endeavours.

About the role 
A Senior Software Engineer is an experienced member of our SEEK Group Engineering teams. A Senior Software Engineer is a fully autonomous professional, responsible for improving the technical alignment, health and engineering practices within a team. You will develop software within product delivery/systems/platform teams, contributing to engineering quality, coaching and mentoring entry-level Software Engineers, and demonstrate passion for your craft through user centric, reliable and scalable solutions
 

Key Accountabilities

The following are key responsibilities that the position will be accountable for on a day-to-day basis.
Build

• Guide other engineers to build, test, deploy and maintain software from development through to production
• Improve platform health, ensuring that our systems are, reliable, resilient, and efficient
• Drive the development of software, strengthening current Software Engineering best practices, ensuring they are fit for purpose
• Work effectively within the team and improve existing DevOps environments
• 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
• Develops Cloud first software (Mobile apps if applicable

Execute

• Consistently write clean, well-tested, readable software, using secure coding practices, current patterns and tooling
• Improve quality and engineering discipline and strengthen team capability
• Strengthen Agile delivery rituals and practices
• Strengthen secure coding practises and tooling within team
• Actively communicate with others in an effective, timely manner with empathy
• Improve a DevOps culture through effective collaboration and regular reflection
• Improve understanding of your customers and consider their needs in all development
• Provide operational support duties, including on-call support and after-hours work as per roster

Support 

• Contribute to the safety, work-life balance and well-being of other team members
• Be a key contributor to the onboarding of new hires
• Help create space for other team members to articulate different opinions/ feedback
• Improve others’ abilities through mentoring and set example behaviour

Strengthen

• Key contributor to communities of practice at SEEK
• Actively seek out learning opportunities for self and others through inviting and providing regular feedback

Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Build

• Some experience in leading individuals in a software engineering team or project setting
• Lead the delivery of a specific technical/system/product outcome within a software delivery team

Execute

• 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

Support

• Proactively sharing knowledge and skills to help other team members grow
• Strengthen
• Proactively contributing to internal or external professional communities of practice event

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.