Senior Android Engineer - Technology Growth & Incubation

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

Our team is responsible for building the next “big thing” for our customers, armed with a startup mentality, trying to experiment in new areas to deliver added values services to SEEK customers through green fields projects.

We operate under the 3 brands of JobStreet, JobsDB and SEEK to help over 150 million candidates find employment

About the role

The Senior Android Engineer is responsible for the development, implementation, maintenance, and support of software solutions. This job requires an active hands-on contributor in the software development life cycle, performing analysis and design as well as a proven team player to achieve project goals.

Key Partners include

• Software Engineering Manager
• Principal Software Engineer
• Architects
• UI/UX Designers
• Business Analysts
• Product owners & Project Managers

Responsibilities

• Help evolve delivery processes to continuously improve our mobile applications.
• Contributing to SEEK’s overall apps technology strategy and aligning systems with that strategy.
• Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected and follow current SEEK development practices.
• Maintaining platform health ensuring that our systems are highly scalable, available, performant, maintainable, secure and cost effective.
• Driving customer focus to ensure that we are delivering great outcomes for our customers.
• Help facilitates the healthy tension between the desire for immediate delivery and the long-term viability of the code bases.
• Share operational support duties.

Qualifications

Essential Skills and Experience

We are looking for a mobile senior engineer (android) with fullstack experience to help us building some of our green field projects, someone with a start-up background and growth mindset would fit perfectly in our team.

Experience

• Involve in collaboration with partners to understand business challenges and customer needs, removing bottlenecks and identifying new opportunities for growth.
• Knowledge of industry practices, regulations and compliance (GDPR, PDPI), and quality assurance techniques.
• Experience working with geo-distributed teams.

Personal Skills

• Applies relevant knowledge to the development and improvement of software applications, driving better technical decision at the team level.
• Positive demeanor and a clear sense of initiative.
• Has a growth mindset - flexible, open, and actively seeking opportunities to improve.
• Continuously learn and understand the business requirements, customer, and end-user feedback to further improve the products.
• Actively investing time in technical growth.
• Manage own time well, being able to support fellow engineers and be critical on inefficiencies.
• Self-motivated with good analytical and conceptual thinking.
• Ability to share new knowledge and tools to cultivate constructive conversations and improve team capabilities.
• Open minded collaborator and clear communicator who can manage customers' expectations well.

Technical Skills

• Test-driven development and agile software delivery methods.
• Hands-on experience in estimating, planning, crafting, implementing, testing and operating highly scalable project.
• Ability to support other team members with supervision and direction to achieve our team goals.
• Knowledge in Koitlin, Typescript and Node.js.
• Creates software in at least two modern software development languages.
• Creates and maintains continuous delivery pipelines using current agile practices, patterns & tooling.
• Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities.
• Working knowledge of modern stacks e.g. GraphQL, Jest, Docker.
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming.
• Knowledge of building solutions deployed on AWS with immutable infrastructure via infrastructure as code

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.