Senior Software Engineer - Recruiter Network (Hybrid Working)

About SEEK

SEEK’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 SEEK

SEEK’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.

The Team

The SEEK Recruiter Network (SRN) helps organizations fill their most critical roles by connecting them with specialist recruiters they can trust. We work with small to medium businesses that have typically struggled to fill a role and connect them with a specialist recruiter who can support them in filling that job vacancy. 

 Split between offices in Melbourne, KL, and the Philippines, the team values embrace working across multiple locations and flexible working arrangements, boasting a large diversity of team members from different cultures and nationalities.

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.

Key responsibilities include:

• Effectively collaborate with other engineers in building, testing, deploying, and maintaining software from development to production.
• Improve system reliability, resilience, and efficiency.
• Strengthen Software Engineering best practices to ensure they are fit for purpose and aligned with Agile and secure coding standards.
• Work effectively within the team to enhance DevOps environments.
• Develop and operate scalable, high-performance software aligned with company frameworks and technology strategy.
• Write clean, well-tested, secure, and readable code while improving quality and engineering discipline.
• Contribute to team members' safety, work-life balance, well-being, onboarding, and mentoring.
• Communicate effectively and empathetically, considering customer needs in development.
• Contribute to communities of practice, seek learning opportunities, and provide regular feedback.

Experience

• Improving how we build, deploy and maintain working quality software
• Crafting and operating highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions
• Built and operated highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions.
• Led operational support duties, including on-call support and after hours work as the need arises

Technical Skills

• Proven experience building and maintaining software written in TypeScript, Node JS & React.
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming
• Proven understanding of highly available systems and web scale architecture with knowledge of clean architecture, clean code and domain-driven design
• Design, develop, support and maintain cloud (AWS) native applications
• Experience developing systems which efficiently use AWS services such as ECS, EKS, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Event-Bridge, CloudFormation & CDK
• Experience with database technologies including MongoDB & DynamoDB
• Experience in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines such as Buildkite
• Experience with integration testing
• Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities
• Experience working with monitoring & observability tools such as Datadog & Splunk

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.