Senior Software Engineer - Recommendation (AI Platform Services)

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to join the Recommendations team within AIPS and help us solve some of SEEK's most interesting and challenging problems. Our teams are cross-functional, and you’ll collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers across a diverse and extensive problem domain. In this role, you will design and implement complex engineering solutions to enable AI/ML-powered services that help identify quality candidates for jobs.

Key responsibilities 

• Designing, building, and maintaining secure, scalable, high-performance components and services that align with the team's objectives.
• Ensuring that systems are adequately developed, tested, and fit for
  purpose.
• Being responsible for your service in production, its consistent uptime, troubleshooting, non-functional SLAs.
• Driving conversations and making decisions regarding the architecture and design of subsystem components.
• Guiding the team toward continuous improvement by promoting best practices and design patterns.
• Supporting experiments to assess the performance of various algorithms and using the results to iteratively improve the platform.
• Collaborating closely with Data Scientists, Product Managers, and
  fellow Engineers to deliver excellent software for our partners in an agile
  environment.
• Thriving in a fast-paced and innovative environment where you can rapidly learn and adapt to evolving methodologies and technologies.

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Strong technical skills and significant hands-on coding experience
• Solid background in software engineering with 5+ years of experience
• Proficient in Python, Scala or Java
• Knowledge in Linux environments and Bash scripting
• Strong SQL skills
• Strong experience with AWS cloud platform – EC2, ECS, SQS, SNS, Batch, Lambda, Athena, CloudFormation, S3, SageMaker, DynamoDB, RDS, etc.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices

Professional Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong hand-on coding skills
• Good understanding of secure coding practices, and knowledge of mitigating common vulnerabilities
• Working with rapidly evolving designs and requirements
• Clear and effective communication
• Success in cross-functional teamwork
• Dedication to continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends

Desired Skills:

While not required, having any of the following skills and experiences will be considered a valuable addition:

• Experience with AI/ML tools and platforms
• Experience with Golang
• Experience with Spark/Databricks

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• 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
• SEEKer Support, a confidential service that offers employees up to six sessions with a mental health professional of your choice
• Tailored career development planning (including Education Assistance Program)
• 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.