Senior / Software 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 Role

• This role is within the Personalisation squad in AIPS, working on complex engineering solutions that power job personalisation contents for many millions of job seekers in Australia and Asia every day
• Work in a passionate, dynamic, growing environment with the ability to learn and adapt quickly to new methodologies and technologies
• Actively participate and contribute in communities of practice at SEEK and beyond; pursue mastery of software delivery and inspire such pursuit in others
• Participate in the design, definition and development of software components and data systems, including prioritisation and planning, to meet your team goals
• Assist in being responsible for your Squad’s services in production, its consistent uptime, troubleshooting, data governance and agreed SLAs
• Ensure that systems are adequately developed, tested, and are fit for purpose
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Optimization Analysts, Data Engineers and Strategy Managers to deliver excellent software for our partners in an agile environment

Key Responsibilities

• Turn sophisticated requirements into practical solutions
• Design and implement robust, scalable components with a focus on performance
• Own system components, including implementation and managing technical debt
• Ensure high service availability and meet SLAs
• Collaborate with data scientists, ontologists, and engineering managers in an agile environment
• Contribute to system roadmaps and capacity planning
• Develop comprehensive testing strategies
• Drive continuous delivery practices and improve team efficiency

• Support and mentor team members, removing obstacles
• Balance immediate delivery needs with long-term sustainability
• Design and conduct experiments to evaluate algorithms
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical services
• Align technical solutions with AIPS strategy and objectives

Required Qualifications :

• Knows well at least one of the following languages and happy to learn the others:

1. Java
2. Rust
3. Python
4. Go
5. Typescript

• Experience with AWS cloud platform
• Overall understanding of machine learning, deep learning, and LLMs
• Experience with functional programming is a plus
• Proven track record to build and maintain scalable, resilient systems
• Skilled in crafting robust software architecture
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices

Professional Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong collaborator management and requirements gathering
• Clear and effective communication
• Success in cross-functional teamwork
• Dedication to continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends

The Team

The AI & Platform Services (AIPS) team exists within the Seek Group and provides AI-centric core services that scale globally including search, behavioural tracking, recommendations, candidate matching, ontological services and personalisation. AIPS works primarily with internal partners, providing services to these partners, who in turn deliver products to customers (candidates, hirers). Members of the AIPS team fall into one of three primary roles

• AI (artificial intelligence and machine learning)
• Strategy (business, product, go to market)
• Engineering (development, DevOps, responsible for production systems)

People representing each of these roles are combined into squads which are in turn responsible for related sets of business services.

Why SEEK!

• Mature and collaborative working culture
• Hybrid working mode
• Extensive employee benefits
• Ample of career growth opportunities

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.