Senior Staff Engineer

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK operates market-leading online employment marketplaces, including Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.

Founded and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK has grown into a multinational technology company with over 3,300 employees and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

SEEK’s presence spans Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Additionally, SEEK has minority investments in employment marketplaces in China, South Korea and Bangladesh.

SEEK develops and applies innovative data and technology tools to facilitate high-quality matching and improve reliability of marketplace information.

In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, SEEK was recognised as one of Australia’s Top Ten Places to Work in Technology in the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards. SEEK was also named a 5-Star Employer of Choice by HRD Asia in 2024 and won four accolades at TalentCorp’s Life at Work Awards 2023 in Malaysia.

Job Description

The Role

A Senior Staff Engineer is a technical specialist role and senior member within our SEEK Group Engineering teams. A Senior Staff Engineer is a sub-domain subject matter expert, whose primary focus is to partner closely with Engineering Managers, Heads of Engineering, Architecture, and Heads of Product to drive the alignment of sub-domain strategy to SEEK’s overall technical strategy.

Day-to-day, you will work collaboratively with your team management peers (Engineering Managers), providing technical guidance and specialist knowledge of codebases/systems/tools/platforms across multiple teams in which you work and support the resolution of technical issues and decisions as the need arises.

A Senior Staff Engineer advocates for, and empowers, technical best practices which support the delivery of software across multiple teams or technology specialisations within a sub-domain. You will be accountable for advocating clean, scalable, testable code, ensuring high development practices and standards across your sub-domain. Line Management is an optional component of this role.
We are seeking a highly skilled individual contributor with expertise in React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS architecture. Experience in AI/GenAI is a strong advantage. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of collaborating with senior stakeholders and thriving in an environment with minimal guidance. A hands-on, innovative approach is essential, as the role requires someone who is a tech pioneer and trailblazer.

Key Accountabilities

Build:

• Ensure services, systems, and platforms within your sub-domain are fit for purpose, well-architected, and follow SEEK development practices
• Drive platform health and technical best practices across Engineering teams
• Be the technical escalation person within your sub-domain, supporting production incidents through to resolution

Execute:

• Strengthen engineering discipline and technology capability across sub-domain
• Partner with technical stakeholders and support the Head of Engineering in capacity planning, risk management, and prioritisation of technical work
• Provide technical guidance, break through blockers, and facilitate technical discussions impacting your sub-domain

Support:

• Grow Staff Engineer technical leadership capabilities through coaching and mentoring
• Strengthen the technical capabilities of your sub-domain by identifying and nurturing engineering talents
• Support the wellbeing of your sub-domain by advocating for a safe, inclusive, diverse, and engaged culture

Strengthen:

• Contribute to the engineering community at SEEK (e.g., open-source projects, mentoring, guilds)
• Develop a profile within the external engineering community
• Proactively seek out learning opportunities for self and others

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

1. Extensive experience in designing, developing, and maintaining cloud-first applications and APIs, with a focus on well-architected systems following SEEK development practices.
2. Proven ability to lead technical roadmaps, implement CI/CD practices, and drive platform health across engineering teams.
3. Strong coding skills with experience in writing well-tested, secure, and readable software using current patterns and tooling.
4. Demonstrated experience in technical leadership, including mentoring, coaching, and guiding software engineers within and across teams.
5. Ability to influence and negotiate with senior stakeholders, focusing on outcomes that align with overall strategy.
6. Experience in managing operational support duties, including on-call support and after-hours work as required.
7. Proactive approach to knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and participation in internal and external engineering communities.

Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

1. Experience in defining key technical metrics for service/system/platform health and leading technical transformational change within multiple teams or sub-domains.
2. Previous experience in attracting and recruiting software engineers, acting as a brand ambassador for the organisation.
3. Demonstrated ability to support the professional development and promotion of Software Engineers and Staff Engineers across multiple teams.

Desired Values

• Believed in aiming high to deliver world-class results and yet, not forgetting to care for others

Additional Information

The Team

At SEEK, teams develop products and solutions for internal and external customers across the SEEK Group. Organized into cross-functional squads within an APAC matrix structure, custodial teams focus on specific customer bases like Candidate, Hirer, AIPS, Technology Platforms, and Marketplace Services.

Roles You'll Work With

• Engineering: Graduate to Distinguished Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Heads/Directors of Engineering.
• Leadership: Executives (technical and non-technical) and Software Architects.
• Product & Analysis: Product Managers, Data Analysts, UX/Visual Designers, and Business/Iteration Managers.
• Collaborate with functions such as Strategy, Sales, HR, AI, Security, Architecture, and APAC Engineering Teams in Hirer, Candidate, and Platform domains.

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.