Staff Android Engineer - Mobile Apps Platform

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?

We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams, appreciate progressive industries, 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. Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts. 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.

Job Description

The Team

Our Apps Platform team is responsible for the core architecture, infrastructure, operational practices, and design governance that enable our Candidate Domain teams to deliver high quality experiences for our SEEK, Jobsdb, and Jobstreet mobile apps. Our ambition is to deliver world class apps that delight our candidates and hirers by leading teams to build consistent, beautiful, reliable, and secure apps at scale.

We work on a mixture of operational, tactical, and central initiatives that help maintain our platform health, improve the engineering experience, enable efficient delivery of value at scale, elevate the quality of our user experience, and grow our mobile apps capability at SEEK.

We are a multi-functional distributed agile team of Android/iOS engineers, product, design, and delivery specialists located across Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. We are driven by a strong sense of passion for our customers (internal teams and candidates/hirers), high quality engineering, and the continuous improvement of our platform to enable teams at SEEK to drive rapid value to our candidates/hirers.

We apply a combination of agile, extreme programming, and mobile best practices, supporting the software we release end to end, welcome diverse thinking, and are looking for ways to continuously improve the way we work.

About the role

As a Staff Android Engineer you will play a hands-on technology leadership role leading technical alignment, engineering quality, and technical practices of the team enabling delivery of services/products for our Apps Platform that are fit for purpose, well architected, and follow SEEK development practices.

You will be responsible for architecting solutions, evolving delivery/technical practices of the team, leading the team to write high quality maintainable software, and growing the capabilities of other engineers through coaching. As part of your remit you’ll play a key role in driving our platform’s technical roadmap partnering with product, mobile, & web technical leaders to drive alignment to our mobile ambition and SEEK’s overall technical strategy.

We are looking for versatile engineers who are passionate about their craft, have an in-depth technical understanding of the Mobile Apps ecosystem, and a strong customer focus.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical approach for the Android Apps Platform subdomain ensuring services/systems/tooling are fit for purpose, well architected, and follow SEEK development practices.
• Own and drive platform health by ensuring systems are aligned to SEEK’s technical metrics.
• Uplift and embed technical practices in the team advocating for delivery of high quality software that is secure, reliable, and can be easily maintained.
• Build and operate highly scalable and performant software in alignment with existing frameworks and SEEK’s technology strategy.
• Exemplify and coach the writing of clean, well-tested, readable, and easy to maintain software using secure coding practices, current patterns, and tooling.
• Strengthen engineering discipline and technology capability of the team.
• Build strong relationships and drive technical alignment with Android/iOS/Web technical leaders across the Candidate domain and wider SEEK teams (e.g. Architecture, Security, and other teams as needed).
• Support the definition of quarterly OKRs and be responsible for their delivery according to defined product & tech health metrics.
• Support the Engineering Manager in capacity planning, risk management, scoping and prioritisation of work.
• Drive a customer-focus in what the team does to ensure we are delivering great outcomes for teams using the Android Platform and our candidates/hirers.
• Be the point of contact for solutions and how teams collaborate with our Android Apps Platform systems, tools, and processes.
• Act as an enabler for the team, removing obstacles from their paths and identifying potentials for delivery, business, and process improvements
• Grow team member technical capabilities through proactive technical coaching, instruction and example behaviour.
• Proactively seeks opportunities to contribute for self and team members to contribute to internal/external engineering community of practice (e.g hackathon, guilds, brown bags, mentoring, open source, etc)

Qualifications

Essential Skills and Experience

Experience

• Delivered software solutions in sophisticated environments with partners and dependencies.
• Leading the architecture and operation of highly scalable, reliable, performant, and secure solutions.
• Highly experience in engineering for native/hybrid mobile apps, Kotlin, and the Android ecosystem.
• Proficient with a wide range of mobile architectures, patterns, and best practice engineering (MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, dependency injection, concurrency and multithreading).
• Experienced with Android testing strategies and frameworks.
• Experienced creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines using current practices, patterns, & tooling.
• Experienced driving operational deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of mobile app releases (e.g. App DevOps, feature toggle management, A/B test management, and metrics monitoring).

Desirable Experience, Skills and Competencies

• Dedicated, positive ‘can-do’ attitude, with a clear sense of initiative.
• Strong communicator, ability to present to and influence technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable facilitator, able to lead the team to break down sophisticated problems, navigate ambiguity, resolve conflicts, and balance trade-offs to steer the team towards positive outcomes.
• High level of self-awareness and proactive on continuous improvement and learning.
• Acts as a positive catalyst to bring the best out of the team, empower others, and inspire change.
• Able to manage competing priorities, identify trade-offs/risks and manage technical and non-technical partner's expectations.
• Highly empathetic, emotionally intelligent and versatile – can tailor coaching/feedback to the needs of individuals.
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and embracing opportunities to take calculated risks.

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.