AddressAbout SEEK
SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses, which includes Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia, make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.
Life at SEEK
SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). In Malaysia, where SEEK’s Asia HQ is located, we received four accolades at the TalentCorp Life at Work Awards 2023, including first runner-up for Best International Organisation and champion for Best CHRO. We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.
Job DescriptionAbout the role
The Staff Engineer is an in-team technical specialist whose primary focus is to design and build fit-for purpose solutions whilst strengthening the health of the technical systems/platforms/products within the team.
They will do this by leading and empowering technical practices which support the delivery of software within product delivery/systems/platform teams.
About the Team
The Front End Practices team are responsible for guiding the internal practices for front-end development at SEEK. Including:- Web Platforms & Tooling for building, deploying, and serving web applications
Design Systems and related projects for prototyping and styling web applicationsWe design, develop, and deliver tools and platforms used by SEEK's front-end teams 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 define our own ways of working, striving to bring a balance of passion and pragmatism to everything we do.
We embrace flexible working arrangements from hybrid through to fully remote.We have a particularly strong culture of open-source development. Our design system, Braid Design System, and front-end development toolkit, sku, are two of several open-source projects our team maintains.
About the Role
The focus for this role will initially be within Web Platforms, including leading how SEEK builds, deploys and serves it's web application.
For your given focus, you’ll be asked to:
- Direct and contribute to SEEK’s technology strategy
- Build platforms and tools that enable SEEK’s technology strategy
- Build and own a limited number of critical shared solutions
- Enable outcomes for product teams
- Exemplify engineering discipline and quality that uplift SEEK’s overall capability
You might find this role interesting if:
- You’ve written a Babel or ESLint plugin (or wanted to)
- You’ve written a tool to streamline your development workflow
- You’ve gone digging around the internals of Webpack or Vite (or similar)
- You’re simply passionate about browsers and the web platform
Required Skills & Experience
- Experience building Web Platforms, notably extending or building bundlers and transpilers
- Experience building highly technical developer tooling at scale
- In-depth knowledge of Browsers and Web Applications, including URL specifications and Web APIs
Technical Skills
- Technical knowledge of solution and application architectures. Able to mentally visualise, draw, and process complex systems.
- Experience implementing and maintaining tools for front-end development. Ability to build and run high quality, beautiful, and reliable software, tooling, libraries, and frameworks.
- Comfortable using TypeScript and NodeJS to create engineering solutions for delivering web applications at scale. Working with tools like React, Babel, ESLint, Webpack, or Vite.
- Experience writing code for, contributing to, and understanding community mechanisms of open-source projects.
- Understanding of mechanisms for compiling source code, bundling web applications, and static code analysis.
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 don't 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.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.
