Staff Engineer

NOTE: This is a *senior engineering role* requiring deep expertise in React applications, JavaScript bundling, and advanced tooling, working for a company with a high-performance culture that celebrates the diversity of its people.

About SEEK

SEEK's portfolio of diverse businesses 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 Places to Work in Technology We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

The Team

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

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

The Role

This is a *senior technical role* within our SEEK Group Engineering function. You will act as a technical specialist, designing and building fit-for-purpose solutions and strengthening the health of our technical platforms.

The focus for this role will be within Web Platforms, including leading how SEEK builds, deploys and serves its web applications. You will utilise your technical expertise building React applications, and experience with JavaScript bundling and related tooling, to the 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 SEEK's technology strategy.
• Build and own a limited number of critical shared solutions.
• Exemplify engineering discipline and quality that uplift SEEK's overall capability.  
• Build and operate highly scalable and performant software in alignment with existing frameworks.
• Ensure your teams 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 team in alignment to SEEKs 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.

Skills and Experience Required

Technical

• Proven experience building applications using React and TypeScript, and utilising 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

• 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).

Permanent Perks

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Tailored career development planning (including Education Assistance Program)

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.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

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