Staff Engineer - Web Platforms
Staff Engineer - Web Platforms
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Job Description
The Team
The Experience Platforms team is responsible for guiding the development of experiences at SEEK. Within Web Platforms this includes building deploying and serving web applications.
We design develop and deliver tools and platforms used by SEEK to build performant and consistent experiences for our users. We manage our own roadmap in close consultation with our customers the SEEK engineering and design community.
We have a particularly strong culture of open-source development. Our front-end development toolkit sku is one of the open-source projects our team maintains.
The Role
As a senior member within our SEEK Group Engineering in this role you will act as a technical specialist designing and building fit-for purpose solutions and strengthening the health of our technical systems/platforms/products.
The focus for this role will be within Web Platforms including leading how SEEK builds deploys and serves its web applications. You will utilise your technical expertise building React applications and experience with JavaScript bundling and related tooling to drive the evolution of the web platform.
You might find this role interesting if:
- Youve written a Babel or ESLint plugin (or wanted to)
- Youve written a tool to streamline your development workflow
- Youve gone digging around the internals of Webpack or Vite (or similar)
- Youre simply passionate about browsers and the web platform
Key Accountabilities
Build
- Build platforms and tools that enable SEEKs technology strategy.
- Build and own a limited number of critical shared solutions.
- Exemplify engineering discipline and quality that uplift SEEKs overall capability.
- Build and operate highly scalable and performant software in alignment with existing frameworks.
- Ensure your teams systems/platforms are fit for purpose and well architected.
- Uplift and embed technical practices in Engineering teams.
Execute
- Ensure writing of clean well-tested readable software using secure coding practices current patterns and tooling.
- Lead secure system design and secure coding practices within team in alignment to SEEKs security principles.
- Be a technical escalation person who owns and addresses production incidents through to resolution.
- Be the key point of contact for technical solutions and how other teams interface with systems/tools/platforms.
Qualifications :
Skills and Experience Required
Technical
- Proven experience building applications using React and TypeScript and utilising Server Rendering.
- Preferred experience in JavaScript bundling and related bundler tooling such as Babel plugins ESLint plugins Webpack or Vite.
- Proven experience of taking responsibility for development & maintenance of a service/system/platforms health.
- Experience in technical decision making ensuring the outcome is delivered through to completion.
Other
- Strong communicator.
- Open minded collaborator with a growth mindset.
- Prior experience working in online marketplace businesses would be considered ideal.
- Experience partnering with negotiating with and influencing senior stakeholders (e.g. Engineering Managers Architects and Product Managers).
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
- The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
- 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 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 :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
