Full-Time Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer is a technology leader and key member of our engineering teams.

In this leadership role, you will shape the future vision of the team, as well as ensuring our solutions are meeting our business and technical needs across SEEK’s Asia and Pacific markets.

You will lead the overall technical alignment, health, capability and performance of the platform.

You will also provide people leadership through mentoring, developing or line managing other engineers.

Key stakeholders include: Leadership Team, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Engineers, UX Designers, Analysts.

Key responsibilities include:

1. Contributing to Jora’s overall technology strategy and aligning systems with that strategy.
2. Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well-architected and follow current Jora development practices.
3. Maintaining platform health, ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient and cost-effective.
4. Driving customer focus to ensure we are delivering valuable outcomes for our customers.
5. Growing the team’s technical capabilities through coaching and mentoring.
6. Helping to drive cross-team collaboration, decision-making and accountability.

Experience:

• Leading a diverse software engineering team
• Improving how we build, deploy and maintain working quality software
• Designing and operating highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions
• Operating in a distributed team environment
• Growing engineers personal and technical skills through coaching and mentoring

Personal Skills:

• Influences and motivates others, with a positive attitude and clear sense of initiative
• Self-aware and proactive on continuous improvement and continual learning
• Comfortable dealing with uncertainty
• Breaks problems down, analyses constituent parts, proposes and delivers creative solutions
• Pragmatic, open-minded collaborator with a growth mindset
• Clear communicator who is able to manage stakeholder expectations, facilitate groups and resolve conflicts
• Focuses on outcomes over outputs
• Builds trust, safety and inclusion in teams

Technical Skills:

• Solid experience building and maintaining software written in TypeScript, Node.js & React.
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming.
• Design, develop, support and maintain cloud (AWS) native applications
• Experience developing systems which effectively use AWS services such as SQS, SES, API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, Firehose and Infrastructure as Code such as CDK
• Experience with database technologies including DynamoDB
• Solid understanding of highly available systems and web scale architecture
• Experience in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines such as Buildkite
• Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities
• Uses data to drive decision making

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