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Job Description
Join our Engineering Platforms team within Marketplace Services as aStaff Engineer Online Identity Services. In this critical role youll work alongside a highly skilled and technical team to design and deliver cuttingedge authentication solutions ensuring seamless and secure experiences for our users.
As the most senior team member youll lead projects such as single signon integration and the evolution of our Online Identity Services (OIS) into a scalable Identity Platform used across the organisation. Youll also play a key role in mentoring peers influencing stakeholders and collaborating with both technical and nontechnical audiences.
This team like most of our teams in Marketplace Services is evolving from being a purely backend experience API Team into a platform team with its own set of customers and products that it offers to the wider business.
Longer term the focus will be:
- Extracting ourselves from being a purely backend experience team and moving towards a platform team offering the right set of products to SEEKs internal engineering workforce to enable them to do their jobs more efficiently
- Bringing disparate authentication providers across SEEK together to enable a single source of truth
- Continuing to uplift our security practices around authentication across SEEK
Key Responsibilities
Lead technical initiatives including single signon integration and uplifting OIS into a broader Identity Platform.
Oversee authentication services including login systems and the integration of Auth0.
Engage with and influence a diverse range of stakeholders including technical and nontechnical audiences.
Act as a technical leader within the team providing mentorship and guidance on best practices.
Uplift the technical capability from within the team
What makes this role unique
Unique position in the APAC tech market to build a developer platform used by hundreds of developers daily powering a marketplace with approximately 40 million candidates and 400000 hirers.
Central to SEEKs future business and expansion plans
Interact with almost every SEEK product team and external partners (e.g. Jora)
Diverse team (gender age demographic cultures).
Plenty of opportunity for innovation and space to make a difference
The SEEK culture (creative fastpaced and challenging great people great location).
Cutting edge tech stack and development practices.
Large scaling challenges (Both People and Technology) ahead
APAC Focus
This is a rare opportunity to lead in a niche space shaping critical identity services that underpin our organisations growth and innovation.
About the Team:
The Online Identity Services team is one half of our Online Identity ecosystem with the other half being Online Identity Experience.These teams look after out Identity authentication and soon to be authorisation requirements across the SEEK Ecosystem.The Services team focus on our internal customers here at SEEK Developers Customer Service Trust and Safety Product etc while the Experience team focus on our candidates and hirers directly.
Qualifications :
- Extensive experience in identity management and authentication systems.
- Proven technical leadership capabilities within highperforming engineering teams.
- Strong programming skills in TypeScript and familiarity with AWS native services (e.g. SQS).
- Deep technical expertise combined with excellent problemsolving abilities.
- Strong design acumen with the ability to influence architecture and strategy.
- Exceptional communication skills capable of engaging with both technical 70 and nontechnical 30 audiences effectively.
Additional Information :
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
- 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 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
Employment Type
Full-time
