Senior Software Engineer

The Team

Seek Asia provides products and services to candidates in job markets across the Asia region. We operate under the 3 brands of JobStreet, JobsDB and SEEK to help over 150 million candidates find employment.

The team comprises of multiple squads focused on various applications and initiatives within the wider Seek business, focusing on the growth and incubation.

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.

Responsibilities

• Owning the technical approach for growth initiatives within Seek Asia.
• Evolving delivery processes to continuously improve the developed applications.
• Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected and follow current SEEK development practices.
• Maintaining platform health ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient, and cost effective.
• Driving customer focus to ensure that we are delivering great outcomes for our customers.
• Growing the technical and leadership capabilities through coaching and mentoring.
• Consult with stakeholders, to translate technical concerns into business impacts and provide relevant information to inform and facilitate effective decision making.
• Act as an enabler for the team, removing obstacles from their paths and identifying potentials for delivery, business, and process improvements.
• Help facilitate the healthy tension between the desire for immediate delivery and the long-term viability of the code bases.
• Share operational support duties.

Essential Skills and Experience

Experience

• Test-driven development and agile software delivery methods. A familiarity with evolutionary architecture is an asset.
• Hands-on experience in estimating, planning, designing, implementing, testing and operating highly scalable, available, performant, maintainable and secure applications, including supporting fellow engineers. ​
• Applies relevant technologies knowledge to the development and improvement of software applications, being able to drive better technical decision at the team level.
• Involve in collaboration with stakeholders to understand business challenges and customer needs, remove bottlenecks, and identify new opportunities for growth.
• Knowledge and experience with industry best practices, regulations and compliance (GDPR, PDPI), and quality assurance techniques.
• Being able to participate in the hiring processes.
• Experience working with geo-distributed teams and external consultants.

Personal Skills

• Positive attitude and a clear sense of initiative.
• Has a growth mindset - flexible, open, and actively seeking opportunities to improve.
• Continuously learn and understand the business requirements, customer, and end-user feedback to further improve the products.
• Actively investing time in technical growth.
• Manage own time well, being able to support fellow engineers and be critical on inefficiencies. ​
• Highly self-motivated team player with good analytical and conceptual thinking, results-driven and customer focus.
• Ability to grow other engineers’ personal and technical skills through coaching or mentoring.
• Ability to help team members translating requirements to improve customer experience.
• Prioritize tasks and plan tasks for the longer term for the team. ​ ​
• Ability to share new knowledge and new tools to cultivate constructive conversations and improve team capabilities.
• Open minded collaborator and clear communicator who can manage stakeholders' expectations.

Technical Skills

• Expert knowledge in JavaScript or Typescript
• Creates software in at least two modern software development languages.
• Creates and maintains continuous delivery pipelines using current agile practices, patterns & tooling.
• Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities.
• Working knowledge of modern stacks e.g. Node.js, Express, GraphQL, Jest, React Testing Library, Apollo.
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming.
• Solid knowledge of building solutions deployed on AWS.
• Demonstrated experience building and designing Microservices REST API.

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.