Staff Engineer

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● 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.
• ● Extensive experience designing, building and operating production software systems, APIs or platforms in cloud environments. A track record of staff-level technical leadership, including shaping architecture, setting direction, evolving platforms and influencing outcomes beyond a single team or implementation. Strong architectural judgement across secure coding, CI/CD, testing, observability, incident response, resilience, performance and cost. The ability to connect technical roadmaps and engineering investment to customer value, commercial outcomes and broader product strategy. Experience making pragmatic prioritisation decisions when technical quality, product needs, risk and delivery commitments compete, and keeping delivery sustainable over time. Strong cross-functional influencing and communication skills, including the ability to state a clear point of view, negotiate priorities, make decisions visible and create alignment without hierarchy. Experience increasing team and organisational leverage through standards, guidance, governance, documentation, communities of practice, presentations, coaching, pairing or other repeatable mechanisms. Hands-on experience with AI coding tools and agentic workflows, with evidence of improving engineering productivity or software quality through safe, measurable and practical adoption. Experience delivering LLM-powered applications, agents or workflows in production, or demonstrable equivalent judgement around quality, safety, human oversight and operational risk. A strong learning mindset, curiosity about emerging technologies and a habit of sharing practical insights with the wider engineering community. The ability to remain hands-on while operating across domains and avoiding an overly narrow focus on a particular stack or implementation.
• ● 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 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. At SEEK, we may use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process, including reviewing applications or assessing responses. These tools are designed to assist our hiring teams, not replace human judgment. All hiring decisions are made by people. If you'd like more information about how your information is managed during recruitment, please contact the Talent Acquisition Team. SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.