The Team
The Front End Practices team are responsible for guiding the internal practices for front-end development at SEEK. Including
- Web Platforms & Tooling for building, deploying, and serving web applications
- Design Systems and related projects for prototyping and styling web applications
We design, develop, and deliver tools and platforms used by SEEK's front-end teams to build performant and consistent experiences for our users.We also manage our own roadmap in close consultation with our customers – the SEEK engineering and design community.We define our own ways of working, striving to bring a balance of passion and pragmatism to everything we do.We embrace flexible working arrangements from hybrid through to fully remote.We have a particularly strong culture of open-source development. Our design system, Braid Design System, and front-end development toolkit, sku, are two of several open-source projects our team maintains..
About the role
The focus for this role will initially be within Web Platforms, including leading how SEEK builds, deploys and serves it's web application.
For your given focus, you’ll be asked to:
- Direct and contribute to SEEK’s technology strategy
- Build platforms and tools that enable SEEK’s technology strategy
- Build and own a limited number of critical shared solutions
- Enable outcomes for product teams
- Exemplify engineering discipline and quality that uplift SEEK’s overall capability
You might find this role interesting if:
- You’ve written a Babel or ESLint plugin (or wanted to)
- You’ve written a tool to streamline your development workflow
- You’ve gone digging around the internals of Webpack or Vite (or similar)
- Or you’re simply passionate about browsers and the web platform
Required Skills & Experience
- Experience building Web Platforms, notably extending or building bundlers and transpilers
- Experience building highly technical developer tooling at scale
- In-depth knowledge of Browsers and Web Applications, including URL specifications and Web APIs
Valuable Skills & Experience
Technical Skills
- Technical knowledge of solution and application architectures. Able to mentally visualise, draw, and process complex systems.
- Experience implementing and maintaining tools for front-end development. Ability to build and run high quality, beautiful, and reliable software, tooling, libraries, and frameworks.
- Comfortable using TypeScript and NodeJS to create engineering solutions for delivering web applications at scale. Working with tools like React, Babel, ESLint, Webpack, or Vite.
- Experience writing code for, contributing to, and understanding community mechanisms of open-source projects.
- Understanding of mechanisms for compiling source code, bundling web applications, and static code analysis.
Professional Skills
- Clear communication of technical content, comfortable delivering workshops and communicating complex concepts to a general audience.
- Ability to identify and harness organisational and technological opportunities for improvement with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Readiness to accept responsibility and accountability for identified challenges.
- Well-developed networking and consulting skills to improve knowledge share and continuous improvement across the business.
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
