Lead Engineer - SEEK Pass Hybrid Working

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 employmentrelated processes. 

Our primary use case today is helping job seekers to stand out on SEEK by preverifying their qualifications licences and other credentials so that employers can shortlist them with confidence and speed. We operate as a distinct crossfunctional business unit with integrations into SEEKs job marketplaces across AsiaPacific. 

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

About the Role 

As a Lead Engineer you are an experienced and autonomous leader within our SEEK Pass Engineering teams. In this role you will drive technical alignment enhance engineering practices and ensure the overall health of the teams technical direction. 

You will lead the development of software within product delivery systems or platform teams ensuring engineering excellence and the creation of scalable reliable and usercentric solutions. In addition to your handson contributions you will provide guidance and mentorship to Software Engineers fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical growth across the team.  

As a passionate advocate for engineering best practices you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical strategy and ensuring our solutions meet the highest standards of quality performance and maintainability. 

• A technical people leader who might manage a team of between 37 Engineers from Grad Staff level.
• Help with mentoring and leading others cut the code help review ensure the systems are reliable and secure etc. 
• Part of a shared leadership group across Product and Operations for Seek Pass
• Launching credentials across our SEEK brands in Asia
• Potential to participate or be involved in building SEEKs new references platform 

Responsibilities 

Youll 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 were 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 experience either on the back end with Ruby on Rails or frontend with React & Typescript 
• Experience leading teams using agile software development practices 
• Writing testable effective and communicative code 
• Architecting and building highly available scalable secure & performant systems 
• Data modelling design patterns understanding tradeoffs 
• Strong experience in agile software development practices 
• Experience in developing and expanding microservices architecture 
• Experience in integrating with thirdparty 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 dont know something you find out. If you cant 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 startup / scaleup 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.
• 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
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year

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 dont meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement please still get in touch with us. 

Should you require any specific supportor 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

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime