Engineering Manager

About Jora

A SEEK start-up, Jora is a job search platform, headquartered in Melbourne and operating on a global scale. Jora aggregates employment opportunities from thousands of different job sites to offer jobseekers the largest source of job opportunities in real time. Jora is focused on continually improving and expanding its product offering to fuel rapid growth.

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 Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). 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.

About the role

The Engineering Manager is a technology leadership role and focuses on
people, delivery, and technology outcomes. You will lead and grow robust technology
talent and teams, provide exceptional partner management and be accountable for
building, delivering, and maintaining our products or internal systems & services.

As a technology leader, you are accountable for the overall technical alignment & health
of the product or services you deliver and maintain thereafter, as well as the growth,
capability, and productivity of an engineering team. Engineering Managers are active
thought and people leaders, driving continuous improvement as well as customer and
commercial outcomes. You operate what you ship, making it critical that as a technology
leader you advocate for the right technical solutions that balance time to market with
long term maintainability, scalability, and security. 

About the team

The Jobstream team is a distributed team across Melbourne and Sydney with 5 Engineers at varying levels of seniority from Staff to mid level engineers. It is predominantly a back end team responsible for developing Jora's world class crawling and aggregation technology.

With plenty of exciting opportunities in the space, including experimentation with the latest internal and external AI models, Jobstream is on the critical path to Jora's success.

Joining the Jobstream team at Jora and more broadly SEEK, feels like working at a scale-up with the backing and support of a well-established organisation, with the freedom to move quickly and the support of a rich SEEK ecosystem that make product engineering and delivery quicker and smoother.

Responsibilities

This role is broad, but remains close to technology, people and product. You’ll directly line manage employees and eventually people managers.

You will lead a tight-knit group of dedicated and passionate people who truly believe in transparency, collaboration, learning, team cohesion, moving quickly and having some fun as we strengthen the team and our products.

• Seeking an Engineering Manager for a backend aggregation tech team
• Team responsible for maintaining and evolving crawlers for 25K sources, handling 250M jobs annually
• Roadmap includes investing in AI tech for automating crawler configuration and healing processes
• Emphasis on handling data-heavy tasks and upcoming initiatives
• Candidate should possess strong technical and data analytics skills to dive into the intricacies of the work

• Track record of building and leading high performing engineering teams in a fast-paced technology company  
• Come from a technical background and bring an understanding of backend aggregation technology or event driven architecture 
• Experience developing and maintaining technical roadmaps to communicate and guide the evolution of services/systems and platforms 
• Led technical teams and understand how to lead and motivate talented technologists
• Ability to lead the team independently, fostering a culture of autonomy and innovation
• A background of successful delivery of initiatives and products

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• 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
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• SEEKer Support, a confidential service that offers employees up to six sessions with a mental health professional of your choice

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.