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Senior Software Engineer (Hybrid)


Company : SEEK


Location : Melbourne, Victoria


Created : 2025-07-07


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

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, youll 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 its 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. Were 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 the largest tech companies in Australia and Asia Pacific region, youll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the regions. 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 DescriptionThe TeamSEEK Pass is a trusted digital passport used by over 3 million people to manage and share their verified identity, credentials, and documents. We aim to integrate across the HR ecosystem to provide more value, security and convenience for individuals and organisations in employment-related processes.Our primary use case today is helping job seekers to stand out on SEEK by pre-verifying their qualifications, licences and other credentials so that employers can shortlist them with confidence and speed. We operate as a distinct cross-functional business unit, with integrations into SEEKs job marketplaces across Asia-Pacific.Our teams build products and solutions for internal and external customers across SEEK Pass and the wider SEEK Group. A Senior Software Engineer is an experienced member of our SEEK Pass Engineering teams. A Senior Software Engineer is a fully autonomous professional, responsible for improving the technical alignment, health and engineering practices within a team.You will develop software within product delivery/systems/platform teams, contributing to engineering quality, coaching and mentoring entry-level Software Engineers, and demonstrate passion for your craft through user centric, reliable and scalable solutions.ResponsibilitiesYou''ll play a meaningful role in:Helping builds, maintain and improve our platformsProtecting the security and privacy of the user dataIntegrating with partners and authoritiesHave real involvement in the business direction of the productSome of the technology we''re using includes:Ruby on RailsNode.jsGraphQLPostgreSQL and RedisAll aspects of AWSQualificationsFor this role, we have a very open mind in terms of specific work experience. If you have the right mindset and capabilities, then we strongly encourage you to apply. Here are some things we would regard highly:Significant back-end development experience in Ruby on Rails5 to 8 years of software development experienceWriting testable, effective and communicative codeArchitecting and building highly available, scalable, secure & performant systemsData modelling, design patterns, understanding trade-offsStrong experience in agile software development practicesExperience in developing and expanding microservices architectureExperience in integrating with third-party systemsStrong data & application security knowledge and skillsSolid understanding of and experience with AWS servicesAs a team member we value the following traits:Passion and happiness in learning new things (if you don''t know something - you find out. If you can''t do something - you learn)A keen curiosity about the overall business context and building phenomenal user experiencesNice to have (but not essential):Experience in a start-up / scale-up environmentExperience with identity or document verification and complianceAdditional InformationPerks and benefitsAt 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 leaveSupport for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partnersThe opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial yearAt 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 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 feesAbout the companySEEK is Australias number one employment marketplace. Find jobs and career related information or recruit the ideal candidate. Why settle? SEEKNoticeTalentify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.Talentify provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities, including disabled veterans. Request assistance at accessibility@talentify.io or 407-000-0000.Federal law requires every new hire to complete Form I-9 and present proof of identity and U.S. work eligibility.An Automated Employment Decision Tool (AEDT) will score your job-related skills and responses. Bias-audit & data-use details: www.talentify.io/bias-audit-report . NYC applicants may request an alternative process or accommodation at aedt@talentify.io or 407-000-0000. #J-18808-Ljbffr