Staff Engineer

The Role

A Staff Engineer is a senior technical leader and in-team technical specialist within SEEK Engineering. You will own the technical direction of the team and the systems it builds and operates while influencing adjacent teams and the wider Hirer Monetisation and Insights sub-domain. 

You will design and build fit-for-purpose products platforms and services; strengthen system health; and help create the engineering practices that allow people and AI-enabled tools to deliver safely and effectively. You will connect technical decisions to customer and commercial outcomes lead through ambiguity and make the trade-offs required to keep delivery sustainable over time. 

A modern Staff Engineer at SEEK works across domains is not overly stack-focused and uses sound judgement to balance delivery quality security and maintainability. They are deeply curious continuously learning and willing to experiment with new technologies and ways of working. They use AI and emerging tools responsibly to improve engineering practice while applying strong judgement and establishing practical guardrails for safe use. 

Youll also be a hands-on technical leader in the teams day-to-day work helping shape architecture guide delivery support production incidents improve engineering practices and make repositories and workflows more AI-ready. AI is changing how software is built and how SEEK creates customer value so you will be expected to use AI coding tools as part of your normal engineering practice and to help the team establish repeatable measurable and safe workflows. You will also contribute hands-on technical leadership to production LLM and agent capabilities where they are relevant to HMI products and systems. 

The Team

The Loyalty Products engineering teams sit within SEEKs Hirer marketplace under the Monetisation & Insights sub-domain. Together we build the APIs UI widgets business logic product catalogue capabilities and commercial products that help hirers discover select activate and grow the value they get from SEEK.

Our work spans ad budgets promo codes account-level spend and ROI visibility contracts add-ons and emerging commercial models all aimed at improving customer experience increasing hirer value and supporting sustainable revenue growth through stronger product mix and better budget utilisation. We work at the intersection of product experience and monetisation creating practical scalable solutions that make purchasing simpler more relevant and more effective for customers.

Youll collaborate with software engineers staff and senior staff engineers engineering managers product managers designers data engineers business analysts architects security AI platform and other engineering teams across SEEK. Youll be expected to influence without relying on hierarchy create clarity across team boundaries and make dependencies risks ownership and technical decisions visible.

Key Accountabilities

• Own the technical direction architecture and evolution of the teams services systems and platforms.

• Set and maintain a pragmatic roadmap balancing customer value reliability security resilience observability cost performance and technical debt.

• Lead design development testing deployment and operation of scalable software and APIs.

• Act as a technical escalation point for complex production issues driving learning remediation and prevention.

• Improve developer experience and delivery flow through strong CI/CD testing observability documentation and operational practices.

• Use endorsed AI coding tools responsibly across the delivery lifecycle and help make the teams repositories workflows and practices more AI-ready.

• Lead by example in adopting AI for engineering sharing learnings and lifting capability across the wider engineering group.

Qualifications :

• Extensive experience designing building and operating production software systems APIs or platforms in a cloud environment.

• Staff-level technical leadership with ownership of architecture roadmap and platform evolution.

• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools and agentic workflows plus a track record of improving engineering productivity and quality through AI-enabled practices.

• Production experience with LLM-powered applications agents or workflows including good judgement around guardrails quality standards and human oversight.

• Strong architectural judgement across secure coding CI/CD testing observability incident response and resilience.

• Proven ability to influence across multiple teams communicate clearly and coach others effectively.

• A strong learning mindset with curiosity for new technologies and a habit of sharing practical learnings with the wider engineering group.

Additional Information :

Permanent Perks 
At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible hybrid working including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days
• 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.

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 youd 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time