Senior Software Engineer - Alpha Domain (Hybrid Working)

SEEK; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking tech company where you'll leverage your software engineering skills to tackle complex challenges. In this role, you will contribute to innovative solutions that impact millions across Asia. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and continuous learning, you'll work in a dynamic environment that values your growth and ideas. Expect to engage with cutting-edge technologies while enjoying a flexible work culture that promotes work-life balance. This opportunity is perfect for those eager to make a significant impact in a vibrant and inclusive team.

Benefits

Annual Performance Bonus Plan

Flexible Working Hours

Casual Dress Code

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience with a focus on JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Experience in agile methods and test-driven development.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to technical strategies for growth initiatives within the team.
• Ensure systems are secure, reliable, and cost-effective.
• Drive customer focus to deliver great outcomes.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

Agile Software Delivery

Test-Driven Development

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Software Engineering Principles

Secure Coding Practices

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Node.js

Express

GraphQL

Jest

React Testing Library

AWS

Job description

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?

Be part of a multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere.We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams 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.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.

Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Job Description

The Team

Seek Asia Apps provides products and services to candidates in job markets across the Asia region. We operate under the 3 brands of JobStreet, JobsDB and SEEK to help over 150 million candidates find employment.

The team comprises of multiple squads focused on various applications and initiatives within the wider Seek Asia business, focusing on the growth within Asia

The Role

The Senior Software Engineer has an exceptional level of technical competence and the skillset necessary to be fully autonomous and address all areas of software engineering, problem resolution, solution architecture and system implementation. This is an individual contributor role who will help drive when, where, and how technology is used to solve complex problems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Contributing to the technical approach for growth initiatives within Seek Asia.
• Help evolve delivery processes to continuously improve the developed applications.
• Contributing to SEEK’s overall technology strategy and aligning systems with that strategy.
• Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected and follow current SEEK development practices.
• Maintaining platform health ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient, and cost effective.
• Driving customer focus to ensure that we are delivering great outcomes for our customers.
• Help facilitate the healthy tension between the desire for immediate delivery and the long-term viability of the code bases.
• Employ pragmatic coding practices, understanding when temporary solutions are necessary for efficient learning and experimentation.
• Share operational support duties.

Qualifications

So, what we are looking for?

Experience

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in agile software delivery methods and test-driven development.
• Hands-on experience in estimating, planning, designing, implementing, testing and operating highly scalable, available, performant, maintainable and secure applications, including supporting fellow engineers.
• Applies relevant technologies knowledge to the development and improvement of software applications, being able to drive better technical decision at the team level.
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration and working with stakeholders to understand business challenges and customer needs, remove bottlenecks, and identify new opportunities for growth.
• Deep understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns and industry best practices.
• Knowledge of regulations and compliance (GDPR, PDPI), and quality assurance techniques.
• Experience working with geo-distributed teams.

Personal Skills

• Positive attitude and a clear sense of initiative.
• Has a growth mindset - flexible, open, and actively seeking opportunities to improve.
• Continuously learn and understand the business requirements, customer, and end-user feedback to further improve the products.
• Actively investing time in technical growth.
• Manage own time well, being able to support fellow engineers and be critical on inefficiencies.
• Highly self-motivated team player with good analytical and conceptual thinking, results-driven and customer focus.
• Ability to share new knowledge and new tools to cultivate constructive conversations and improve team capabilities.
• Open minded collaborator and clear communicator who can manage stakeholders' expectations.

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in building and maintaining software using JavaScript and Typescript.
• Creates software in at least two modern software development languages.
• Creates and maintains continuous delivery pipelines using current agile practices, patterns & tooling.
• Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities.
• Working knowledge of modern stacks e.g. Node.js, Express, GraphQL, Jest, React Testing Library, Apollo.
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming.
• Knowledge of building solutions deployed on AWS.
• Experience leading the end-to-end delivery of technical initiatives, empowering other engineers by balancing support and autonomy, and providing a long-term view of the technical direction of software systems.

Additional Information

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.
• 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 supportor 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.