Senior Software Engineer - SEEK Pass (Hybrid Working)

Company Description

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

Be part of a multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere. We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment.

As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Job Description

The Team 

SEEK Pass is a trusted digital passport used by over 3 million people to manage and share their verified identity, credentials, and documents. We aim to integrate across the HR ecosystem to provide more value, security and convenience for individuals and organisations in employment-related processes.

Our primary use case today is helping job seekers to stand out on SEEK by pre-verifying their qualifications, licences and other credentials so that employers can shortlist them with confidence and speed. We operate as a distinct cross-functional business unit, with integrations into SEEK’s job marketplaces across Asia-Pacific.

Learn more about SEEK Pass at: https://seekpass.co 

About the role 

Our teams build products and solutions for internal and external customers across SEEK Pass and the wider SEEK Group. A Senior Software Engineer is an experienced member of our SEEK Pass Engineering teams. A Senior Software Engineer is a fully autonomous professional, responsible for improving the technical alignment, health and engineering practices within a team.

You will develop software within product delivery/systems/platform teams, contributing to engineering quality, coaching and mentoring entry-level Software Engineers, and demonstrate passion for your craft through user centric, reliable and scalable solutions. 

Responsibilities 

You'll play a meaningful role in: 

• Helping builds, maintain and improve our platforms 
• Protecting the security and privacy of the user data 
• Integrating with partners and authorities 
• Have real involvement in the business direction of the product 

Some of the technology we're using includes: 

• Ruby on Rails 
• Node.js 
• GraphQL 
• PostgreSQL and Redis 
• All aspects of AWS 

Qualifications

For this role, we have a very open mind in terms of specific work experience. If you have the right mindset and capabilities, then we strongly encourage you to apply. Here are some things we would regard highly: 

• Significant back-end development experience in Ruby on Rails 
• 5 to 8 years of software developement experience 
• Writing testable, effective and communicative code 
• Architecting and building highly available, scalable, secure & performant systems 
• Data modelling, design patterns, understanding trade-offs 
• Strong experience in agile software development practices 
• Experience in developing and expanding microservices architecture 
• Experience in integrating with third-party systems 
• Strong data & application security knowledge and skills 
• Solid understanding of and experience with AWS services 

As a team member we value the following traits: 

• Passion and happiness in learning new things (if you don't know something - you find out. If you can't do something - you learn) 
• A keen curiosity about the overall business context and building phenomenal user experiences 

Nice to have (but not essential): 

• Experience in a start-up / scale-up environment 
• Experience with identity or document verification and compliance 

Additional Information

Perks and benefits 
At SEEK we offer: 

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role. 
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year 
• 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 with 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