Staff Engineer (Hirer Engagement)

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 Team

The Hirer Engagement team works cross-functionally, partnering with key stakeholders across upstream and downstream dependencies to deliver a seamless acquisition and wayfinding experience while strengthening hirer relationships. Strategic projects in pipeline for FY26 to create visibility and impact across the organisation.

About the role 

A Staff Engineer at SEEK is a senior technical leader and a key driver of engineering excellence across teams and domains. You will set technical direction, establish and scale best practices, and ensure they are adopted consistently. You’ll shape technology roadmaps, influence architectural decisions across systems, and raise the bar on reliability, security, and performance. While you remain hands-on where it matters—particularly in complex design, critical reviews, and reference implementations—your primary focus is strategic technical leadership, enabling teams to deliver high-quality outcomes at scale, and coaching engineers at all levels.

This role provides a unique opportunity to drive the strategic direction of hirer journeys and platforms, build cohesive engineering practices across squads, and elevate the effectiveness of both senior and junior engineers through mentorship, technical guidance, and thought leadership. 

Responsibilities 

• Define and drive technology strategy, architectural principles, and multi-quarter roadmaps.
• Establish, codify, and ensure adoption of engineering best practices across teams.
• Lead critical design reviews and guide the architecture of scalable, secure distributed systems.
• Create high-leverage enablement (templates, libraries, tooling, docs) to standardize delivery.
• Coach and mentor senior and junior engineers; grow technical leaders and strong judgment.
• Uplift DevOps, reliability, security, and operational excellence (SLOs, on-call, post-incident).
• Align stakeholders on trade-offs and phased execution; influence across squads and domains.

Skills and experience 

• Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and AWS operating production systems.
• Proven record leading cross-team technical outcomes and setting technical direction.
• Strong distributed systems architecture skills including reliability, performance, and security-by-design.
• Mastery of CI/CD, cloud-native development, IaC, observability, and API management at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to define standards and drive org-wide adoption via enablement and tooling.
• Excellent coaching and mentoring skills across levels; develops senior engineers and tech leads.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder influence, including with geographically distributed teams.

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• 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
• SEEKer Support, a confidential service that offers employees up to six sessions with a mental health professional of your choice
• Tailored career development planning (including Education Assistance Program)

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.