Senior Software Engineer (Customer Technology)

About 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.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

The Role

A Senior Software Engineer is an experienced member of our Engineering team. A Senior Software Engineer is a fully autonomous professional, responsible for improving the technical alignment, health and engineering practices within the team.

You will develop software within Customer Technology Platform teams, contributing to engineering quality, coaching and mentoring entry-level Software Engineers and demonstrate passion for your craft through user centric, reliable, and scalable solutions.

The Team

The Senior Software Engineer will collaborate with a cross functional team to build products and solutions for internal and external customers across the SEEK Group. Primarily working on back-end development, you will be a part of a high performing team working on cutting edge software (cloud based serverless architecture) that integrates with and enhances the features provided by our Marketing and CRM platforms.

You will work with roles, including, but not limited to:

• Software Engineers
• Engineering Managers
• Product Managers
• Data Engineers
• Business Analysts
• Testers

You could partner with people from

• Salesforce CRM team
• Salesforce Marketing Technology team
• Architecture team
• Engineering teams from other domains
• Data Services team
• Business teams: Sales & Service, Finance, Marketing

Key Responsibilities

• Build

  • Design and deliver robust, event-driven integrations between Salesforce, SaaS platforms and SEEK’s cloud apps
  • Write clean, testable code; contribute to architecture and design reviews
  • Implement monitoring, logging and alerting for reliability and observability

• Execute

  • Own solutions end-to-end from requirements to production
  • Collaborate with PMs, architects and stakeholders to translate business needs
  • Work iteratively in agile teams; manage tech debt alongside feature delivery

• Support

  • Participate in on-call; troubleshoot and resolve incidents with root-cause fixes
  • Maintain clear documentation, runbooks and operational procedures
  • Support consumers of integration services

• Strength

  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing
  • Champion engineering excellence and continuous improvem

Core Requirements

• 5+ years’ software engineering experience, ideally in integration/platform contexts
• Proficiency in modern programming languages
• Hands-on experience integrating Salesforce, SaaS and/or internal cloud apps
• Strong collaborator and mentor in cross-functional teams

Technical Experience

• Event-based patterns and loosely coupled architectures
• Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and IaC
• Microservices and distributed systems
• APIs, webhooks and integration middleware
• CI/CD and automated testing

Nice to Have

• Experience leading individuals or outcomes within a delivery team
• Practices: TDD/BDD, Clean Code
• Knowledge sharing and contribution to communities of practice

Perks and benefits
At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Frequent events including sports days, annual Christmas party, hackathon, and trivia
• Free kick-start breakfast every morning and fresh fruit available all day in our offices
• 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 candidates with the 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.