Senior Staff Engineer Marketplace Services

The Team

Join the Marketplace Services team as we evolve from a service provider into a strategic platform enabler. Our mission is to deliver trustworthy shared data and platform services that power APAC Candidate Hirer and AI teamscreating lasting value for customers.

We build and steward the core platforms used across the SEEK Marketplace and connect teams across the SEEK Group to our online ecosystem. Today our remit includes services like Jobs Profile Apply Identity and Notifications alongside essential back-office capabilities.

This is a transformational moment for SEEK. Were laying the foundations for the next decade of marketplace innovationsolving complex high-scale problems with direct business impact and measurable customer outcomes.

If youre excited by platform thinking scale and collaboration youll thrive here. We enable organisational success by delivering scalable efficient platform solutions that help product teams move faster with confidence.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Staff Engineer you will set technical direction own critical architectures and enable teams at scale across the SEEK Marketplace.

• Shape the vision and technical roadmap for our Marketplace Developer Platform defining composable resilient interfaces and contracts that scale globally and are a joy to use.

• Lead the unification of our Single Identity Platform setting standards for authentication authorization and personalization and guiding end-to-end migration and adoption.

• Drive the modernization of our Notification System architecture establishing event-driven patterns reliability/SLOs and delivery pathways that enable meaningful CandidateHirer conversations.

• Own end-to-end architecture for Profile Apply and Jobs services making principled design decisions managing technical risk and guiding teams through high-impact multi-quarter initiatives.

• Accelerate autonomy for Candidate Hirer and AI teams by delivering developer-centric self-service capabilities documentation and golden paths that remove friction and improve delivery velocity.

• Act as the senior technical escalation point mentoring Staff Engineers influencing cross-domain decisions and ensuring our platforms are secure observable and cost-effective.

Youll translate business goals into clear technical objectives KPIs and SLOs across Profile Apply Jobs Identity and Notifications setting reliability targets and operating standards while managing risk and trade-offs. Youll define and evolve integration contracts versioning and deprecation plans so teams can adopt changes safely and incrementally across APAC backed by golden paths SDKs and reference implementations that reduce time-to-first-value and lift delivery velocity.

Youll lead technical discovery to de-risk architecture choices and turn findings into sequenced roadmaps while driving platform health through simplification cost efficiency and security-by-default measured against agreed technical health metrics. Youll align patterns and decisions through cross-domain forums and ADRs/RFCs mentor Staff and Senior Engineers in system design and operational excellence and communicate progress and ROI to technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure trust and sustained adoption.

Qualifications :

• Proven track record designing and evolving scalable distributed platforms that serve millions of users with high availability performance and security.

• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction across multiple teams assess and adopt emerging technologies pragmatically and make architectural decisions that shape company-wide engineering.

• Deep engineering background spanning fullstack development cloudnative architectures and eventdriven systems with hands-on ownership of services end to end.

• Established history of defining and embedding engineering best practices coding standards and architectural patterns that lift team productivity and quality at scale.

• Strong operational leadership including SLO design monitoring and observability incident response capacity planning and continuous optimisation for cost reliability and resilience.

• Recognised mentor and multiplier who grows technical leaders develops Staff/Senior Engineers and builds healthy engineering communities.

Additional Information :

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