Senior Staff Engineer - Mobile Apps (Hybrid Working)

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 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 Senior Staff Engineer for our Mobile Apps Platform team is a technical leadership role, ensuring that our App technical landscape and solutions meet both our current and future organizational and customer needs.  

You will create a technical vision for the team that is inspiring and navigational, ensuring we build the right things, the right way, at the right time. Our platform capabilities will be designed and built to scale, solving common needs and serving multiple internal experience teams that ultimately deliver beautiful experiences to our customers. These experience teams will integrate seamlessly with our core platform, from a technical and operational perspective. 

Your technical leadership will span across our core apps platform and design systems, as well as across our iOS and Android teams. Your leadership will ensure that we collaborate and converge where it makes sense to, ensuring that the right people are involved to make technical decisions in a timely manner. 

Our apps are built from multi-variant Kotlin and Swift codebases, interacting with SEEK’s ecosystem via a GraphQL API. We are currently migrating to Coroutines and SwiftUI, enhancing our design system, and continuously upgrading our CI pipelines running on BuildKite in AWS. In this role, you will be pivotal in driving these initiatives forward. You’ll also be empowered to define future opportunities and engage with stakeholders at various levels with clarity and purpose. 

You will mentor and coach other app engineers to ensure our team is at the forefront of technical innovation and help to create an environment that retains, nurtures and attracts top apps engineering talent.  

About the Team

The 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, serving jobseekers across APAC. 

Our ambition is to deliver world class apps that delight our customers by enabling teams to build consistent, beautiful, reliable, and secure apps at scale.  

The team currently consists of approximately 30 passionate SEEKers across two sub-teams (iOS and Android). Each sub-team being a cross-functional, distributed, agile team of engineers, product managers, designers, and analysts spread across Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.  

We value inclusion and diversity and are passionate about customer satisfaction, high quality engineering, and continuous improvement. 

• Proven technical leader of large mobile apps teams within complex and fast-paced environments. 

• Experience in the build and adoption of app platform capabilities and design systems that enable the delivery of organizational and customer needs at speed and scale. 

• A strategic thinker and technical expert in the world of apps 

• Have defined and communicated an inspiring technical vision to various stakeholders, taking accountability to deliver towards it. 

• Make the complex appear simple, with your strong conceptual understanding and ability to communicate on point. 

• Be a humble team player, with proven ability to build relationships and connect people at all levels 

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• 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
• SEEKer Support, a confidential service that offers employees up to six sessions with a mental health professional of your choice
• 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.