Senior Software Engineer

The Team

Our team is responsible for building the next “big thing” for our customers, armed with a startup mentality, trying to experiment in new areas to deliver added values services 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 Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the 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.

Key Partners include

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

Responsibilities

• Help evolve delivery processes to continuously improve our mobile applications.
• 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 facilitates the healthy tension between the desire for immediate delivery and the long-term viability of the code bases.
• Share operational support duties.

Requirements

Essential Skills and Experience

We are looking for a mobile senior engineer (android) with fullstack experience 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.

Experience

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

Personal Skills

• Applies relevant knowledge to the development and improvement of software applications, driving better technical decision at the team level.
• Positive demeanor 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.
• Self-motivated with good analytical and conceptual thinking.
• Ability to share new knowledge and tools to cultivate constructive conversations and improve team capabilities.
• Open minded collaborator and clear communicator who can manage customers' expectations well.

Technical Skills

• Test-driven development and agile software delivery methods.
• Hands-on experience in estimating, planning, crafting, implementing, testing and operating highly scalable project.
• Ability to support other team members with supervision and direction to achieve our team goals.
• Knowledge in Koitlin, Typescript and Node.js.
• 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. GraphQL, Jest, Docker.
• 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