Staff Engineer - Ruby on Rails

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses, which includes Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia, 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 Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). In Malaysia, where SEEK’s Asia HQ is located, we received four accolades at the TalentCorp Life at Work Awards 2023, including first runner-up for Best International Organisation and champion for Best CHRO. We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Staff Engineer is a technology leader and key member of our engineering teams. In this leadership role you will shape the future vision of the team, as well as ensuring our solutions are meeting our business and technical needs across SEEK’s Asia and Pacific markets. You will be responsible for the overall technical alignment, health, capability and performance of the platform. You will also provide people leadership through mentoring, developing or line leading other engineers.

Key stakeholders include:

• Engineering Manager
• Product Manager
• Engineers
• UX Designers

Key responsibilities include:

• Contributing to Jora’s overall technology strategy and aligning systems with that strategy.
• Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected and follow current Jora development practices.
• Maintaining platform health, ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient and cost effective.
• Driving customer focus to ensure we are delivering valuable outcomes for our customers.
• Strengthening the team’s technical capabilities through coaching and mentoring.
• Helping to drive cross-team collaboration, decision making and accountability

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience :

Experience

• Leading a diverse software engineering team
• Improving how we build, deploy and maintain working quality software
• Designing and operating highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions
• Operating in a distributed team environment
• Growing engineers personal and technical skills through coaching and mentoring

Personal Skills

• Influences and motivates others, with a positive attitude and clear sense of initiative
• Self-aware and proactive on continuous improvement and continual learning
• Comfortable dealing with uncertainty
• Breaks problems down, analyses constituent parts, proposes and delivers creative solutions
• Pragmatic, open minded collaborator with a growth mindset
• Clear communicator who is able to lead collaborator expectations, facilitate groups and resolve conflicts
• Focuses on outcomes over outputs
• Builds trust, safety and inclusion in teams

Technical Skills

• Validated experience building and maintaining software written in Ruby / Ruby on Rails
• Design, develop, support and maintain cloud (AWS) native applications
• Experience developing systems which effectively use AWS services and infrastructure as code (e.g. CDK, Cloudformation, Lambda, etc.)
• Experience with multiple database technologies including PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis
• Solid understanding of highly available systems and web scale architecture
• Experience in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines such as Buildkite or Teamcity
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming
• Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities
• Creates and maintains continuous delivery pipelines using current practices, patterns & tooling
• Uses data to drive decision making
• Ability to quickly learn new programming languages and technologies
• Comfortable with HTML, CSS and Javascript

Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Experience

• Supporting product experiments and hypothesis driven development
• Setting technical practices and processes that enable performant software teams.
• An interest in Distributed Systems Observability, software testing or UI Component Libraries.

Personal Skills

• Influences and motivates others
• Drives a culture of continual improvement
• Visualises technical complexity to mixed audiences
• Improves others through teaching and providing regular feedback

The Team

The Engineering team is the largest team in Jora with more than 30 engineers. The team is split across the four main domains of aggregation, candidate, employer and native apps. Operating in a true start up environment and culture, we love to take a data driven and analytical approach to developing, prioritising and monitoring production features that drive outcomes for our customers.

Split between offices in Melbourne, Sydney and KL, the team values and adopt working across multiple locations and flexible working arrangements and includes diversity in team members from different cultures and nationalities.

Job Posting Tips:

• Permanent position based on hybrid working mode
• We offer extensive employee benefits
• Mature and collaborative working culture
• Work life balance

Additional Note

• This is an optional section
• This is a 2 years/ 24 months contract role

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.

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