Lead Engineer

About SEEK

SEEK operates market-leading online employment marketplaces, including Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.

Founded and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK has grown into a multinational technology company with over 3,300 employees and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

SEEK’s presence spans Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Additionally, SEEK has minority investments in employment marketplaces in China, South Korea and Bangladesh.

SEEK develops and applies innovative data and technology tools to facilitate high-quality matching and improve reliability of marketplace information.

In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, SEEK was recognised as one of Australia’s Top Ten Places to Work in Technology in the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards. SEEK was also named a 5-Star Employer of Choice by HRD Asia in 2024 and won four accolades at TalentCorp’s Life at Work Awards 2023 in Malaysia.

The Team

Our team is responsible for building the next “big thing” for our customers, armed with a startup mindset, trying to experiment in new areas to deliver added values to SEEK customers through green fields projects.

We operate under the 3 brands of JobStreet, JobsDB and SEEK to help over 150 million candidates find employment.

About the role

The Lead Software Engineer role is responsible for leading a team towards development, implementation, maintenance, and support of software solutions. This job requires an active hands-on contributor in the software development life cycle, performing analysis and design as well as a proven team player to achieve project goals, in addition to good personal & communication skills.

Key stakeholders include:

• Head of Engineering
• Software Engineering Manager
• Architects
• UI/UX Designers
• Business Analysts
• Product owners & Project Managers

Key Responsibilities 

• Provide technical directions on tactical and strategical basis for the team.
• Support other team members and ensure healthy team atmosphere following SEEK culture.
• Ensure that the team is following technical best practices whenever possible, documenting and managing technical debt whenever it’s not the case.
• Help evolve delivery processes to continuously improve the Seek Asia apps.
• Contributing to SEEK’s overall apps 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 highly scalable, available, performant, maintainable, secure 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 & organise operational support duties.

So, what are we looking for?

We are looking for an engineering leader who have been experienced in software engineering with good balance between people & technical skills to help us building some of our green field projects, someone with a start-up background and growth mindset would fit perfectly in our team. This role will include technical, leadership & managerial responsibilities.

Experience

• Involve in collaboration with stakeholders to understand business challenges and customer needs, removing bottlenecks and identifying new opportunities for growth.
• Knowledge of industry best practices, regulations and compliance (GDPR, PDPI), and quality assurance techniques.
• Experience working with & managing geo-distributed teams.

Personal Skills

• •Applies relevant technologies knowledge to the development and improvement of software applications, being able to drive better technical decision at the team level.
• 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.
  
  • Support fellow team members in their career progression aspiration.
  
  • Open minded collaborator and clear communicator who can manage stakeholders' expectations well.

Technical Skills

• Test-driven development and agile software delivery methods.
• Hands-on experience in estimating, planning, designing, implementing, testing and operating highly scalable, available, performant, maintainable, secure and cost effective, being able to implement this independently and able to support other team members with supervision and direction to achieve our team goals.
• Knowledge in JavaScript, Typescript, React and ideally React Native.
• 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, Docker, Apollo.
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming.
• Knowledge of building solutions deployed on AWS with immutable infrastructure via infrastructure as code.

Desired Values

• Believed in aiming high to deliver world-class results and yet, not forgetting to care for others

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.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.