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.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

The Team

Our Core Mobile Apps Platform team is responsible for the core architecture, infrastructure, operational practices and design capabilities that enable our Candidate Domain teams to deliver high quality mobile experiences for our SEEK, Jobsdb, and Jobstreet mobile apps.  

Our ambition is to deliver world class apps that delight our candidates by enabling teams to build consistent, beautiful, reliable, and secure apps at scale. We focus on tactical and strategic initiatives that help maintain our platform health, introduce new platform capabilities, and elevate the user experience. 

We are a cross-functional distributed agile team of engineers and product managers spread across Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. We welcome diverse thinking and are passionate about customer satisfaction, high quality engineering, and continuous improvement. 

 

About the role 

We're seeking for a versatile Lead Engineer for our Core iOS platform team - an entry-level people management role for a senior engineer passionate about mobile development.

You'll provide in-team leadership focused on people management, team health, and technical culture while driving software delivery and engineering quality. Working with other technical leaders, you'll architect solutions, evolve team practices, mentor engineers, and support career development through line management.

Key aspects of the role include driving the platform roadmap, partnering with product teams and mobile technical leaders to deliver on SEEK's mobile ambition and technical strategy across APAC markets. We're looking for someone with solid iOS ecosystem knowledge, strong customer focus, care for people, and a delivery mindset.

Responsibilities 

• Drive platform roadmap strategies aligned with SEEK's mobile ambition, partnering with product teams to define technical direction and deliver on mobile objectives across APAC markets
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable iOS software solutions that meet customer needs and support the platform's long-term scalability and performance goals
•  Establish technical practices and engineering quality standards, evolving team delivery processes and ensuring code quality across the iOS platform
• Develop mentoring programs to grow engineer capabilities, providing career development support and fostering technical skill advancement within the team
• Lead team initiatives for culture and cohesion, focusing on team health, collaboration, and creating an environment where engineers can thrive
• Architect solutions with other technical leaders, collaborating on system design and technical decision-making that spans multiple teams and platforms
• Provide line management and people leadership while building strong partnerships with product teams to ensure technical and business alignment across APAC markets

Skills and experience 

• Extensive hands-on experience developing applications using Swift, SwiftUI, XCTest, XCUITest, and Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), including expertise in multi-variant and multi-module application architectures.
• Experienced in developing highly scalable, available, performant, and secure native iOS Apps
• Working in a cross functional software engineering team with experience in supervising/ coaching/mentoring Engineers
• Support a culture that that promotes continuous improvement in a team environment.
• Familiar with GraphQL and TypeScript, with a solid understanding of API design and data integration best practices.
• Skilled in leveraging public cloud platforms (preferably AWS) for both development and operational workflows, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Experienced in ensuring platform health and reliability through proactive monitoring against technical performance metrics and service-level objectives.
• Strong ability to influence, motivate, and negotiate across teams and with senior stakeholders, fostering alignment and driving strategic outcomes.

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
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• SEEK is committed to operating sustainably and is preparing for the impacts of climate change and the transition to a low-carbon future, and is working to minimise its environmental impacts which includes a long-term emissions reduction target of net zero by FY2050
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year

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.