Software Engineer - Growth & Incubation (Alpha) - Hybrid Working

Software Engineer - Growth & Incubation (Alpha) - Hybrid Working

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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.

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.

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 multiple squads focused on various applications and initiatives within the wider Seek Asia business, focusing on growth within Asia.

The Role

The Software Engineer role requires a high level of technical competence and the skill set necessary to 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.
• Helping 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 our systems are secure, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective.
• Driving customer focus to ensure we deliver great outcomes for our customers.
• Facilitating the healthy tension between immediate delivery and long-term codebase viability.
• Employing pragmatic coding practices, understanding when temporary solutions are necessary for efficient learning and experimentation.
• Sharing operational support duties.

Qualifications

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.
• Applying relevant technology knowledge to the development and improvement of software applications, and driving better technical decisions at the team level.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand business challenges and customer needs, removing bottlenecks, and identifying new opportunities for growth.
• Knowledge of industry best practices, 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.
• Growth mindset — flexible, open, and actively seeking opportunities to improve.
• Continuously learning and understanding business requirements, customer, and end-user feedback to improve products.
• Investing in technical growth.
• Managing own time effectively, supporting fellow engineers, and being critical of inefficiencies.
• Highly self-motivated team player with good analytical and conceptual thinking, results-driven, and customer-focused.
• Ability to share new knowledge and tools to foster constructive conversations and enhance team capabilities.
• Open-minded collaborator and clear communicator who can manage stakeholder expectations.

Technical Skills

• Knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Creating software in at least two modern software development languages.
• Creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines using current agile practices, patterns, and tooling.
• Developing software using secure coding practices and mitigating common vulnerabilities.
• Working knowledge of modern stacks e.g., Node.js, Express, GraphQL, Jest, React Testing Library, Apollo.
• Using current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming.
• Knowledge of building solutions deployed on AWS.

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