Staff Engineer

Company Description

About Jora

Jora is an employment marketplace business operating on a global scale. As a start-up within SEEK, Jora has a warm & unique close-knit subculture, comprising a diverse group of high-performing individuals that share a common desire to make a real difference, on a global scale.

The Jora platform and teams aggregate employment opportunities from thousands of different job sites to offer jobseekers the largest source of job opportunities in real time, in addition to engaging employers across markets to build strong direct relationships and experiences.

With a customer-centric mantra, Jora is focused on continually improving and expanding its product offering to drive fantastic customer experiences that fuels rapid business growth, testing the edge and driving innovation for SEEK. Find out more at www.jora.com

Headquartered in Melbourne with offices in Sydney and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Jora team includes more than 100 engineers, product strategists & analysts, operations staff, and sales people.
We are an extremely diverse organization with over 20 different nationalities represented, and work together as a truly digital remote agile organisation, with a strong focus on cross-functional collaboration and everyone willing to roll up their sleeves

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.

Find out more about us by visiting www.seek.com.au

Job Description

Staff Engineer is a technology leader and key member of our engineering teams. In this leadership role you will shape the future vision of the team, as well as ensuring our solutions are meeting our business and technical needs across SEEK’s Asia and Pacific markets. You will lead the overall technical alignment, health, capability and performance of the platform. You will also provide people leadership through mentoring, developing or line managing other engineers.

Key stakeholders include:

• Leadership Team
• Engineering Manager
• Product Manager
• Engineers
• UX Designers
• Analysts

Key responsibilities include:

• Contributing to Jora’s overall technology strategy and aligning systems with that strategy.
• Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected and follow current Jora development practices.
• Maintaining platform health, ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient and cost effective.
• Driving customer focus to ensure we are delivering valuable outcomes for our customers.
• Growing the team’s technical capabilities through coaching and mentoring.
• Helping to drive cross-team collaboration, decision making and accountability

Qualifications

Experience

• Leading a diverse software engineering team
• Improving how we build, deploy and maintain working quality software
• Designing and operating highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions
• Operating in a distributed team environment
• Growing engineers personal and technical skills through coaching and mentoring

Personal Skills

• Influences and motivates others, with a positive attitude and clear sense of initiative
• Self-aware and proactive on continuous improvement and continual learning
• Comfortable dealing with uncertainty
• Breaks problems down, analyses constituent parts, proposes and delivers creative solutions
• Pragmatic, open minded collaborator with a growth mindset
• Clear communicator who is able to manage stakeholder expectations, facilitate groups and resolve conflicts
• Focuses on outcomes over outputs
• Builds trust, safety and inclusion in teams

Technical Skills

• Solid experience building and maintaining software written in TypeScript, Node.js & React.
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming
• Design, develop, support and maintain cloud (AWS) native applications
• Experience developing systems which effectively use AWS services such as SQS, SES, API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, Firehose and Infrastructure as Code such as CDK.
• Experience with database technologies including DynamoDB
• Solid understanding of highly available systems and web scale architecture
• Experience in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines such as Buildkite
• Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities
• Uses data to drive decision making

Additional Information

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• 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 
• Access to a wide range of discounts on things such as health insurance, fitness, food, travel, accommodation plus many more

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, Visa sponsorship is available.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.