Lead Engineer

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 are responsible for guiding the development of experiences at SEEK. Within Design Systems this includes building and supporting a multi-platform design system, a zero-install code-orientated design environment, and a library for enhancing the predictability of text sizing and layout.

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 define our own ways of working, striving to bring a balance of passion and pragmatism to everything we do. We embrace flexible working arrangements from hybrid through to fully remote. We have a particularly strong culture of open-source development. The open-source projects our team maintains includes the Braid Design System, Playroom and Capsize.

The Role

The Lead Engineer position is an entry-level people manager and senior member of our SEEK Group Engineering teams. As a Lead Engineer you will provide in-team leadership to three direct reports, while also driving the delivery of software within the Design Systems team and strengthening engineering quality.

Your primary focus will still be technical, being responsible for writing clean, scalable, testable code and in ensuring high quality development practices and standards. You will utilise your technical expertise to support and drive the evolution of the Design System and related tooling, to help in continuing to meet the evolving needs of the consuming product delivery teams.

Key Accountabilities

Build

• Guide other engineers to build, test, deploy and maintain software from development through to production.
• Troubleshoot and manage support requests from product delivery teams through to resolution.
• Build highly scalable and performant software in alignment with existing frameworks and SEEK's technology strategy.

Execute

• Strengthen engineering discipline and team capability.
• Consistently write clean, well-tested, readable software, using secure coding practices, current patterns and tooling.
• Manage skill development of systems thinking and maintainable API design.

Support

• Grow team member functional capabilities through line management & coaching efforts.
• Lead the wellbeing of the team by fostering safety, inclusivity, diversity and engagement/culture. 
• Lead the recruitment and onboarding of new hires.
• Act as key contributor to communities of practice at SEEK.

Essential Skills and Experience

Technical

• Extensive knowledge of React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript & TypeScript.
• Experience developing applications in accordance with accessibility guidelines, including familiarity with ARIA guidelines and screen reader technologies.
• Understanding of semantic versioning and package publishing practices.
• Demonstrated experience consistently writing well-tested, readable software, using secure coding practices, current patterns, and tooling.

Leadership

• Ability to collaborate with various cross functional senior stakeholders.
• Proactively sharing knowledge and skills to help team members grow through coaching and mentoring.
• Ability to identify and connect growth opportunities for team members.
• Act as a SEEK engineering ambassador and help attract technical talent.
• Assume a leadership role for a team of iOS, Android and Web engineers.

Personal

• Strong communicator, able to present to and influence technical and non-technical audiences.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Empathy and high emotional intelligence.
• Comfortable dealing with uncertainty.
• Open minded collaborator with a growth mindset.

Permanent Perks

At SEEK we offer:

• 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)
• Dress for your day – every day