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Lead Engineer (Indirect Channels)

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The Indirect teams provide access to SEEK’s employment marketplace for hirers who use third-party HR software. We build integrations that allow the hirers to post their jobs to SEEK from their HR systems, without having to log in to SEEK directly. Our customers include the biggest corporate, recruiter, government and healthcare hirers, which is why the Indirect channels account for a large portion of SEEK’s overall job ad volume and revenue. It’s an important space with the opportunity to work with some of the heavy hitters in the HR Tech space

About the role

A Lead Engineer provides in-team leadership and has a broad focus which primarily includes people management, team health, tech culture and cohesion, while also driving the delivery of software within product delivery/systems/platform teams and strengthening engineering quality. Whilst not the primary focus, you will still be responsible for writing clean, scalable, testable code and in ensuring high development practices and standards.

You will be responsible for line management of engineers, and actively participate in leading, mentoring and developing other engineers. You demonstrate passion for your craft through maintaining team health and functional capabilities as well as ensuring our solutions are meeting SEEK's business and technical needs across our APAC markets.

Responsibilities

  • Guide and mentor engineers to build, test, deploy and maintain highly scalable, performant and reliable software from development through to production, leveraging AI tools to improve team productivity and engineering outcomes
  • Build and operate software in alignment with existing frameworks and SEEK's technology strategy, ensuring platform health across reliability, security, resilience and efficiency
  • Strengthen Software Engineering and end-to-end delivery practices, drive a culture of continuous improvement, and ensure the team consistently delivers high-quality solutions
  • Troubleshoot and manage production incidents through to resolution, including proactively managing on-call processes, incident reviews and supporting documentation
  • Consistently write clean, well-tested, readable software using secure coding practices, current patterns and tooling, maintaining clear accountability for code quality, security and reliability across the team
  • Actively communicate with key stakeholders in an effective and timely manner, keeping customer needs at the core of all development decisions
  • Lead and grow a high-performing team through line management, coaching, recruitment, onboarding and fostering a culture of safety, inclusivity and continuous learning

Skills and experience

  • Experience working in a cross-functional software engineering team, with a proven ability to write well-tested, readable software using secure coding practices, current patterns and tooling across two or more modern software development languages
  • Hands-on experience with the design, development, support and maintenance of cloud-first applications and APIs, including logging, monitoring and alerting tools to support operational health
  • Solid hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript is essential, with a strong foundation in building robust, maintainable backend services; experience with GraphQL is highly regarded but not required
  • Experience applying and improving CI/CD practices, driving software development practices such as Test Driven Development, Behavioural Driven Development and Clean Code
  • Ability to manage operational support duties including on-call support and after-hours work as required, while maintaining a focus on platform reliability and health
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across geographically distributed teams, focusing on outcomes that best serve the overall APAC strategy
  • Supports a culture of continuous improvement, bringing a growth mindset to team environments and delivery practices
  • Proactively shares knowledge and skills to help other team members grow through coaching, mentoring and leading by example

Perks and benefits

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
  • 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.

At SEEK, we may use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process, including reviewing applications or assessing responses. These tools are designed to assist our hiring teams, not replace human judgment. All hiring decisions are made by people. If you’d like more information about how your information is managed during recruitment, please contact the Talent Acquisition Team.

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