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

At SEEK, innovation, creativity and passion drive us. We challenge the status quo and retain the entrepreneurial spirit which drove our early success.

This is what’s led us being named the AFR Boss Overall Winner for Best Place to Work in in Australasia, and the Best Place to Work – Technology.

SEEK strives to support the wellbeing of our employees so they can lead more fulfilling and productive lives. We do this by providing our people with a phenomenal experience at work. We support many types of flexible working arrangements and provide additional leave days such as personal flexi days and volunteer leave.

Our state of the art offices in Cremorne provide an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues with our speciality spaces designed for testing, observation and research. Internal wintergardens, along with outdoor terraces and courtyards provide areas to catch up with colleagues. The Hub and Level 6 Terrace provide sweeping views of the city, as well as a games area featuring a pool table, table tennis table, Xbox Series X and PlayStation.

The opportunities to collaborate and socialise with colleagues continue, with two hackathons a year and social events such as the SEEK Slam, SEEK Soccer, Footy and annual family carnival days.

SEEK is also a proud sponsor of the Midsumma Festival and participates in loads of wellbeing programs throughout the year such as RuOKDay, Wellbeing week and many more.

The Opportunity

At SEEK, our teams look for talented engineers who are passionate about what they do, are customer focused and have high engineering standards. We like to make sure our teams are as diverse as possible – so that together we can deliver world class products to our customers in the marketplace. We live and breathe our commitment to an inclusive culture which values diversity of thought, opinion and background as a more inclusive work environment leads to better work outcomes for our teams.

Senior Developers are key members of our online teams and are responsible for technical alignment, engineering quality, enabling capability and productivity of our engineering team. They help to operate the systems that provide the experiences for our candidates and hirers. They also help drive continuous improvement initiatives and ensure we are delivering great outcomes for our customers and other teams at SEEK.

You’ll collaborate on experiments, product design/delivery and platform health initiatives using a variety of technology and languages (such as React, NodeJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS and GraphQL).

Day to day, you will also be involved with:

Aligning systems to SEEKs overall technology strategy.
Building systems fit for purpose and follow current SEEK development practices.
Contributing to platform health, ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient and cost effective.
Focusing on delivering outcomes for our customers.
Sharing operational support duties.
Participating in team ceremonies such as planning, goal setting and retrospectives.
Exemplifying quality and engineering discipline to uplift team capability.

So, what are we looking for?

We’re keen to work with highly capable Senior Developers with great communication skills that enjoy solving challenging problems. In addition, we are seeking engineers who:

Are flexible and thrive working across different languages and technologies (e.g. React, NodeJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, GraphQL).
Have a support what you build mindset, ensuring we have the right amount of quality and production monitoring and sharing operational support responsibilities.
Are fast learners that appreciate upskilling in new approaches, technologies and languages.
Are strong team players that enjoy collaborating within their team and across dependent teams to deliver ongoing value to customers.
Have a positive attitude with a sense of initiative, strong work ethic and passion for software craftsmanship and engineering practices.

The Perks and Benefits

At SEEK we offer:

Employee Share Purchase Plan
Flexible leave offerings, including opportunities to purchase additional leave
Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave
SEEKer Support, offering mental/physical wellbeing counselling
Education Assistance Program

Here at SEEK we pride ourselves on harbouring a flexible and inclusive working environment. 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.

At SEEK, the health and safety of our people is our highest priority. For this reason, SEEK has introduced a policy requiring all employees and visitors to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 within our offices, unless a formal medical exemption applies. In addition, all employees attending in-person work related meetings or events outside the office will also need to be fully vaccinated. We have chosen to share this information early in our hiring process, so that candidates can make an informed choice. On this basis, as part of the application process you will be asked to confirm that you have read and understood this policy, and would like to continue with the hiring process. Further details about this policy will be shared during the hiring process, as required.

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