Senior Software Engineer - Payments (Hybrid Working)

The Team 

The Payments team is a distributed agile team with members based in Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur. We thrive in a supportive, collaborative environment where everyone's voice is heard. Our team culture is built on mutual respect, continuous learning, and a shared passion for innovation. We believe in work-life balance and making time for team building activities, whether it's online board games or in-person meetups when possible.

About the role 


The Payments team is dedicated to managing and processing all payments made by hirers, ensuring a smooth and efficient transaction process. As a Senior Software Engineer in Payments, you'll develop and maintain SEEK's online payment systems, ensuring our hirers enjoy a seamless and reliable payment experience. Your work will directly help businesses find the right talent without any payment hiccups.

You'll drive technical solutions, collaborate with talented folks across various teams, and keep our payment systems running smoothly. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you'll work closely with product managers, designers, and other software engineers. In return you can expect a flexible working environment with continuous learning and development opportunities and support to grow your career.
 

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and maintain SEEKs online payment systems, ensuring high availability and security
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to discover and deliver good solutions.
  • Mentor and guide more junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and learningfocused environment.
  • Uphold code quality through rigorous code reviews, testing, and adherence to best practices.
  • Monitor and maintain the reliability and performance of our payment systems

Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

  • Proven track record of successfully leading the development of complex software solutions
  • Proficient in at least one modern programming language, with expertise in both OOP and functional paradigms. Willingness and ability to quickly learn TypeScript and Node.js.
  • Experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders

Other Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

  • Experience with cloud platforms and serverless architecture (ideally AWS)
  • Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices (e.g BuildKite)
  • Understanding of security best practices in software development.
  • Experience with microservices architecture and containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
  • Experience in TypeScript and React would be advantageous but not mandatory, training can be provided.

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

About SEEKSEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses, which includes Jobstreet and JobsDB in Asia, make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.​Life at SEEKSEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). In Malaysia, where SEEK’s Asia HQ is located, we received four accolades at the TalentCorp Life at Work Awards 2023, including first runner-up for Best International Organisation and champion for Best CHRO. We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.​

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