The Team
Seek Asia Apps 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 Asia business, focusing on the growth within Asia
The Role
The Software Engineer has a high level of technical competence and the skill set necessary to address all areas of software engineering, problem resolution, solution architecture and system implementation. This is an individual contributor who will help drive when, where, and how technology is used to solve complex problems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Contributing to the technical approach for growth initiatives within Seek Asia.
- Help evolve delivery processes to continuously improve the developed applications.
- Contributing to SEEK’s overall technology strategy and aligning systems with that strategy.
- 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.
- Help facilitate the healthy tension between the desire for immediate delivery and the long-term viability of the code bases.
- Share operational support duties.
So, what we are looking for?
Experience
- Test-driven development and agile software delivery methods.
- 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 of industry best practices, regulations and compliance (GDPR, PDPI), and quality assurance techniques.
- Experience working with geo-distributed teams.
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 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
- 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.
- Knowledge of building solutions deployed on AWS
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.
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