Senior Web Platform Specialist

The Team is responsible for guiding the development of experiences. Within Web Platforms, this includes building, deploying and serving web applications.

We design, develop and deliver tools and platforms used by our community to build performant and consistent experiences for users. We manage our own roadmap in close consultation with stakeholders – the SEEK engineering and design community.

We have a particularly strong culture of open-source development. Our front-end development toolkit, sku, is one of the open-source projects we maintain.

The Focus

As a technical specialist, you will act as a senior member within our SEEK Group Engineering team. In this role, you will design and build fit-for-purpose solutions and strengthen the health of our technical systems/platforms/products.

Your focus will be within Web Platforms, including leading how we build, deploy and serve our web applications. You will utilize your technical expertise building React applications, and experience with JavaScript bundling and related tooling, to drive the evolution of the web platform.

You might find this role interesting if:

• You've written a Babel or ESLint plugin (or wanted to)
• You've written a tool to streamline your development workflow
• You've gone digging around the internals of Webpack or Vite (or similar)
• You're simply passionate about browsers and the web platform

Key Accountabilities

Build

• Build platforms and tools that enable our technology strategy.
• Build and own a limited number of critical shared solutions.
• Exemplify engineering discipline and quality that uplifts our overall capability.
• Build and operate highly scalable and performant software in alignment with existing frameworks.
• Ensure your team's systems/platforms are fit for purpose and well architected.
• Uplift and embed technical practices in Engineering teams.

Execute

• Ensure writing of clean, well-tested, readable software, using secure coding practices, current patterns and tooling.
• Lead secure system design and secure coding practices within the team in alignment to our security principles.
• Be a technical escalation person who owns and addresses production incidents through to resolution.
• Be the key point of contact for technical solutions and how other teams interface with systems/tools/platforms.

Qualifications

Technical Skills and Experience Required

• Proven experience building applications using React and TypeScript, and utilizing Server Rendering.
• Preferred experience in JavaScript bundling and related bundler tooling such as Babel plugins, ESLint plugins, Webpack or Vite.
• Proven experience of taking responsibility for development & maintenance of a service/system/platform's health.
• Experience in technical decision making, ensuring the outcome is delivered through to completion.

Other Requirements

• Strong communicator.
• Open-minded collaborator with a growth mindset.
• Prior experience working in online marketplace businesses would be considered ideal.
• Experience partnering with, negotiating with and influencing senior stakeholders (e.g., Engineering Managers, Architects and Product Managers).

Benefits

We offer an Annual Performance Bonus Plan, flexible working arrangements, paid and unpaid leave benefits, and opportunities for career development planning.

At Our Organization

We value diversity and inclusion. We strive to foster a culture of wellbeing and innovation, where diverse perspectives are encouraged and valued. If you have the skills and curiosity but don't meet every qualification listed, please get in touch with us. For any support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, let us know and we'll assist.