Principal Software Engineer

The Role

The principal software engineer role is responsible for leading a team towards development, implementation, maintenance, and support of software solutions. This job requires an active hands-on contributor in the software development life cycle, performing analysis and design as well as a proven team player to achieve project goals, in addition to good personal & communication skills.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide technical directions on tactical and strategical basis for the team.
• Support other team members and ensure healthy team atmosphere following SEEK culture.
• Ensure that the team is following technical best practices whenever possible, documenting and managing technical debt whenever its not the case.
• Help evolve delivery processes to continuously improve the Seek Asia apps.
• Contributing to SEEKs overall apps 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 highly scalable, available, performant, maintainable, secure 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.
• Share & organise operational support duties.

So, what we are looking for?

We are looking for an engineering leader who have been experienced in software engineering with good balance between people & technical skills to help us building some of our green field projects, someone with a start-up background and growth mindset would fit perfectly in our team.

This role will include technical, leadership & managerial responsibilities.

Experience

• Involve in collaboration 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 & managing geo-distributed teams.

Personal Skills

• Applies relevant technologies knowledge to the development and improvement of software applications, being able to drive better technical decision at the team level.
• 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.
• Support fellow team members in their career progression aspiration.
• Open minded collaborator and clear communicator who can manage stakeholders' expectations well.

Technical Skills

• Test-driven development and agile software delivery methods.
• Hands-on experience in estimating, planning, designing, implementing, testing and operating highly scalable, available, performant, maintainable, secure and cost effective, being able to implement this independently and able to support other team members with supervision and direction to achieve our team goals.
• Knowledge in JavaScript, Typescript, React and ideally React Native.
• 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. , Express, GraphQL, Jest, React, Docker, Apollo.
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming.
• Knowledge of building solutions deployed on AWS with immutable infrastructure via infrastructure as code.