Software Engineer - AIPS

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK is a diverse group of companies, comprised of a strong portfolio of online employment, educational, commercial and volunteer businesses. SEEK operates across 18 countries globally and is a market leader in 14 of these, and across our global footprint we have exposure to some of the world’s largest economies and early stage markets with large and growing populations. SEEK makes a positive contribution to people’s lives on a global scale.

SEEK is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, where it is a top 60 company with a market capitalisation over A$10billion and has been listed in the Top 20 Most Innovative Companies Globally by Forbes, and Number One in Australia.

For more than twenty years, SEEK has been an integral part of Australians’ job-search process, and as the country’s leading employment marketplace is uniquely positioned to empower Australians with career, education and volunteer opportunities to create productive and fulfilling working lives.

Job Description

The Team

The AI & Platform Services (AIPS) team exists within the Seek Group and provides AI-centric core services that scale globally including search, behavioural tracking, recommendations, candidate matching, ontological services and personalisation. AIPS works primarily with internal partners, providing services to these partners, who in turn deliver products to customers (candidates, hirers).

Members of the AIPS team fall into one of three primary roles

• AI (artificial intelligence and machine learning)
• Strategy (business, product, go to market)
• Engineering (development, devops, responsible for production systems)

People representing each of these roles are combined into squads which are in turn responsible for related sets of business services.

The Role

• This role is within the Recommendations squad in AIPS, working on complex engineering solutions that power job recommendations for many millions of job seekers in Australia and Asia every day
• Work in a passionate, dynamic, growing environment with the ability to learn and adapt quickly to new methodologies and technologies
• Actively participate and contribute in communities of practice at SEEK and beyond; pursue mastery of software delivery and inspire such pursuit in others
• Participate in the design, definition and development of software components and data systems, including prioritisation and planning, to meet your team goals
• Assist in being responsible for your Squad’s services in production, its consistent uptime, troubleshooting, data governance and agreed SLAs
• Ensure that systems are adequately developed, tested, and are fit for purpose
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Optimization Analysts, Data Engineers and Strategy Managers to deliver excellent software for our partners in an agile environment

Qualifications

Essential Skills and Competencies

Personal Skills

• Autonomy, responsibility and striving to make a difference
• Ability to identify and harness opportunities for improvement
• Ability to identify and mitigate risks
• Focus on outcomes over output
• Use data to drive decision making
• Focus on continuous improvement and continual learning
• Good self-awareness
• Positive, can-do attitude with a clear sense of initiative
• High degree of emotional intelligence and empathy, seeking feedback
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Strong collaborator that aims to keep an open mind
• Excellent communication skills with ability to work effectively as part of a team

Technical Skills

We are looking for the best engineer to join us – so we will consider applications from people who may not be a perfect match for our tech stack – but are willing to learn.

In the team, we currently use the following programming languages (ideally, you know one of them well and are happy to learn the others):

• Scala
• Python
• Go
• Typescript
• Bash

You should be familiar with distributed systems and cloud computing services.

Our tech stack includes:

• AWS (EC2, Fargate, Batch, lambda, SQS, SNS, Athena, CloudFormation etc)
• Redis
• Solr
• Docker

At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role
• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Casual dress – every day

Additional Information

Our company is committed to equal opportunity and values diversity. Discrimination is not tolerated based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities during the application process, interviews, job functions, and other employment benefits.