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Company Description

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 for the fourth year in a row. 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.

Job Description

Join our Engineering Platforms team within Marketplace Services as a Staff Engineer – Online Identity Services. In this critical role, you’ll work alongside a highly skilled and technical team to design and deliver cutting-edge authentication solutions, ensuring seamless and secure experiences for our users.

As the most senior team member, you’ll lead projects such as single sign-on integration and the evolution of our Online Identity Services (OIS) into a scalable Identity Platform used across the organisation. You’ll also play a key role in mentoring peers, influencing stakeholders, and collaborating with both technical and non-technical audiences.

This team, like most of our teams in Marketplace Services, is evolving from being a purely backend experience API Team into a platform team, with its own set of customers and products that it offers to the wider business.

Longer term the focus will be :

• Extracting ourselves from being a purely backend experience team, and moving towards a platform team - offering the right set of products to SEEK's internal engineering workforce to enable them to do their jobs more efficiently.
• Bringing disparate authentication providers across SEEK together to enable a single source of truth.
• Continuing to uplift our security practices around authentication across SEEK.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical initiatives, including single sign-on integration and uplifting OIS into a broader Identity Platform.
• Oversee authentication services, including login systems and the integration of Auth0.
• Engage with and influence a diverse range of stakeholders, including technical and non-technical audiences.
• Act as a technical leader within the team, providing mentorship and guidance on best practices.
• Uplift the technical capability from within the team.

What makes this role unique?

• Unique position in the APAC tech market to build a developer platform used by hundreds of developers daily, powering a marketplace with approximately 40 million candidates and 400,000 hirers.
• Central to SEEK's future business and expansion plans.
• Interact with almost every SEEK product team and external partners (e.g. Jora).
• Diverse team (gender, age, demographic, cultures).
• Plenty of opportunity for innovation and space to make a difference.
• The SEEK culture (creative, fast-paced and challenging, great people, great location).
• Cutting edge tech stack and development practices.
• Large scaling challenges (Both People and Technology) ahead.
• APAC Focus.

This is a rare opportunity to lead in a niche space, shaping critical identity services that underpin our organisation’s growth and innovation.

About the Team :

The Online Identity Services team is one half of our Online Identity ecosystem, with the other half being Online Identity Experience. These teams look after our Identity, authentication and soon to be authorisation requirements across the SEEK Ecosystem. The Services team focus on our internal customers here at SEEK - Developers, Customer Service, Trust and Safety, Product, etc while the Experience team focus on our candidates and hirers directly.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in identity management and authentication systems.
• Proven technical leadership capabilities within high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript and familiarity with AWS native services (e.g., SQS).
• Deep technical expertise combined with excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Strong design acumen with the ability to influence architecture and strategy.
• Exceptional communication skills, capable of engaging with both technical (70%) and non-technical (30%) audiences effectively.

Additional Information

At SEEK we offer :

• 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.

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.