Senior iOS Engineer

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses 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 Places to work in technology for the fourth year in a row. We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

Job Description

The team 

Our Mobile Apps Platform team is responsible for the core architecture, infrastructure,operational practices, and design governance that enable our Candidate Domain teams to deliver high quality mobile experiences for our SEEK, JobsDB, and Jobstreet mobile apps.  
  
Our ambition is to deliver world class apps that delight our candidates by enabling teams to build consistent, beautiful, reliable, and secure apps at scale. We focus on tactical and strategic initiatives that help maintain our platform health, introduce new platform capabilities, and elevate the user experience.
  
We are a cross-functional distributed agile team of engineers, product managers, designers, and analysts spread across Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. We welcome diverse thinking and are passionate about customer satisfaction, high quality engineering, and continuous improvement.

We are looking for talented engineers with a customer centric mindset, an exceptional eye for detail, highly passionate about crafting polished experiences and engineering solutions that can be easily scaled and maintained.
 

About the role 

As a Senior iOS Engineer you will play a key technical role evolving the iOS app platform through the delivery of frameworks, patterns, tooling, and best practices to enable our teams to deliver a high-quality mobile experience.

We are looking for talented engineers with a strong customer focus, passion for mobile app design, and that share our philosophy for highly maintainable software engineering.

You will be responsible for driving the technical alignment, engineering quality, and delivery of reliable and scalable software. You will also coach/mentor software engineers, improve the engineering practices of the team, and contribute to enabling an inclusive team culture supportive of learning and continuous improvement.
 

Responsibilities 

Build

• Lead and guide other engineers to build, test, deploy and maintain high quality scalable and reliable software from development to production aligned to SEEK’s engineering practices.
• Improve and maintain platform health, ensuring that our systems are reliable, resilient, and efficient.
• Troubleshoot and manage production incidents through resolution.
• Co-drive the design & delivery of platform and back-end experience APIs.

Execute

• Consistently write clean, well-tested, readable software, using secure coding practices, current patterns and tooling.
• Lead improvements to the Apps Platform tooling, continuous delivery pipeline, operational and engineering practices.
• Improve the engineering, quality practices, devops culture, agile delivery rituals and strengthen team capabilities.
• Actively communicate with others in an effective, timely, and empathic manner.
• Manage risks effectively ensuring they are communicated, managed, and mitigated appropriately.
• Improve understanding of our apps platform users and our SEEK customers considering their needs in all aspects of development.

Qualifications

Experience

• Engineering and maintaining high quality architecture, user experience, and long-lived codebases for commercial-scale iOS Apps.
• Architecting, building, and operating highly scalable, available, performant, and secure solutions with complex dependencies.
• Leading engineering and technical solutions as part of a cross functional team in an agile development environment
• Able to manage competing priorities, identify trade-offs/risks and manage technical and non technical stakeholder expectations.
• Experience upskilling, coaching, and developing junior engineers.
• Able to coordinate, influence, motivate, and empower others to achieve outcomes.

Technical Skills

Essential

• Experienced in developing highly scalable, available, performant, and secure native iOS Apps.
• Knowledge of software engineering principles, object-oriented programming and practices in the iOS ecosystem
• Strong sense of software craftsmanship writes clean, testable, effective, and communicable code, driving team engineering principles.
• Experience driving design of and integration with backend services and user behavior metrics.
• Experienced in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines using current practices, patterns, & tooling.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks and test automation.
• Experience with the operational deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of mobile app releases (e.g. App DevOps, feature toggle management, A/B test management, and metrics monitoring).

Desirable

• Practical experience with Swift, SwiftUI, XCTest, XCUITest, Grand Central Dispatch, multi variant applications, multi-module applications.
• Familiar with GraphQL and Typescript.
• Experience with library development and maintenance.
• Using development and operational tools in the public cloud (preferably AWS).
• Drives a culture of continuous improvement and inspires such pursuit in others.
• Contributes and participates in user groups, meetups, conferences, and or open-source projects.

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
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• SEEK is committed to operating sustainably, certified carbon neutral for its business operations (through Climate Active), purchasing renewable energy for our office and working-from-home emissions and a target for net zero by 2030. 
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• SEEKer Support, a confidential service that offers employees up to six sessions with a mental health professional of your choice
• Tailored career development planning (including Education Assistance Program)
• Professional development sessions with industry leading guest speakers
• Free income protection insurance
• Access to a wide range of discounts on things such as health insurance, fitness, food, travel, accommodation plus many more
• Frequent events including sports days, annual Christmas party, hackathon, and trivia
• Free kick-start breakfast every morning and fresh fruit available all day in our offices
• Casual dress – every day

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.

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.