Lead Engineer

The Team

The Hirer Acquisition team works crossfunctionally partnering with key stakeholders across upstream and downstream dependencies to deliver a seamless acquisition and wayfinding experience while strengthening hirer relationships. Strategic projects in pipeline for FY26 to create visibility and impact across the organisation.

The Role

A Lead Engineer is an entrylevel people manager and senior member of our SEEK Group Engineering teams. A Lead Engineer provides inteam 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.

This role provides a unique opportunity to lead highcaliber engineers drive the strategic direction of hirer journeys and take ownership of the daily operations of a highperforming team

Responsibilities

As a Lead Engineer at SEEK you will be an entrylevel people manager and senior member of our Engineering teams. Your key responsibilities include:

• Provide inteam leadership focusing on people management team health tech culture and cohesion.
• Guide and mentor engineers in building testing deploying and maintaining software from development through to production.
• Strengthen engineering practices improve DevOps culture and ensure platform health in terms of reliability security resilience and efficiency.
• Build and operate highly scalable and performant software aligned with SEEKs technology strategy.
• Manage skill development including secure system design and coding practices ensuring team alignment to SEEKs security principles.
• Lead the wellbeing of the team by fostering safety inclusivity diversity and engagement.
• Actively communicate with stakeholders and participate in Agile delivery rituals.
• Troubleshoot and manage production incidents including oncall processes and incident reviews.

Qualifications :

Skills and experience 

• Proficiency in TypeScript Node.js React and AWS.
• Experience leading a team & technical outcomes within a software team
• Experience with CI/CD cloud development and API management.
• Strong mentorship and coaching skills for midlevel and senior engineers.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with geographically distributed teams and senior stakeholders.
• Experience working with both upstream and downstream distributed systems is a plus.

Additional Information :

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
• SEEK is committed to operating sustainably certified carbon neutral for its business operations (through Climate Active) purchasing renewable energy for our office and workingfromhome emissions and a target for net zero by 2030. 
• 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
• Tailored career development planning (including Education Assistance Program)
• Professional development sessions with industry leading guest speakers
• Free income protection insurance
• Access to a wide range of discounts on things such as health insurance fitness food travel accommodation plus many more
• Frequent events including sports days annual Christmas party hackathon and trivia
• Free kickstart breakfast every morning and fresh fruit available all day in our offices
• Casual dress every day

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 dont 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime