Engineering Manager (Ruby) (Hybrid Working)

Company Description

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses, which includes Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia, makes 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 Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). In Malaysia, where SEEK’s Asia HQ is located, we received four accolades at the TalentCorp Life at Work Awards 2023, including first runner-up for Best International Organisation and champion for Best CHRO. We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Job Description

Principal Engineer (Individual Contributor)

As a Principal Engineer (IC), you will be a key technology leader within our engineering teams, driving technical excellence while remaining hands-on in development. In this individual contributor role, you will shape the future vision of the team and ensure our solutions align with business and technical needs across SEEK’s Asia and Pacific markets. You will be responsible for the overall technical alignment, health, capability, and performance of the platform, while also mentoring and guiding engineers to elevate the team’s technical capabilities.

Key Stakeholders:

• Engineering Manager
• Product Manager
• Engineers
• UX Designers

Key Responsibilities:

• Contributing to Jora’s overall technology strategy and aligning systems accordingly.
• Ensuring systems are well-architected, scalable, and adhere to Jora’s best practices.
• Maintaining platform health, focusing on security, reliability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Driving a customer-first mindset to deliver high-value solutions.
• Strengthening the team’s technical capabilities through mentorship and knowledge sharing.
• Facilitating cross-team collaboration, decision-making, and accountability.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience :

Experience

• Leading a diverse software engineering team
• Improving how we build, deploy and maintain working quality software
• Designing and operating highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions
• Operating in a distributed team environment
• Growing engineers personal and technical skills through coaching and mentoring

Personal Skills

• Influences and motivates others, with a positive attitude and clear sense of initiative
• Self-aware and proactive on continuous improvement and continual learning
• Comfortable dealing with uncertainty
• Breaks problems down, analyses constituent parts, proposes and delivers creative solutions
• Pragmatic, open minded collaborator with a growth mindset
• Clear communicator who is able to lead collaborator expectations, facilitate groups and resolve conflicts
• Focuses on outcomes over outputs
• Builds trust, safety and inclusion in teams

Technical Skills

• Validated experience building and maintaining software written in Ruby / Ruby on Rails
• Design, develop, support and maintain cloud (AWS) native applications
• Experience developing systems which effectively use AWS services and infrastructure as code (e.g. CDK, Cloudformation, Lambda, etc.)
• Experience with multiple database technologies including PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis
• Solid understanding of highly available systems and web scale architecture
• Experience in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines such as Buildkite or Teamcity
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming
• Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities
• Creates and maintains continuous delivery pipelines using current practices, patterns & tooling
• Uses data to drive decision making
• Ability to quickly learn new programming languages and technologies
• Comfortable with HTML, CSS and Javascript

Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Experience

• Supporting product experiments and hypothesis driven development
• Setting technical practices and processes that enable performant software teams.
• An interest in Distributed Systems Observability, software testing or UI Component Libraries.

Personal Skills

• Influences and motivates others
• Drives a culture of continual improvement
• Visualises technical complexity to mixed audiences
• Improves others through teaching and providing regular feedback

Additional Information

The Team

The Engineering team is the largest team in Jora with more than 30 engineers. The team is split across the four main domains of aggregation, candidate, employer and native apps. Operating in a true start up environment and culture, we love to take a data driven and analytical approach to developing, prioritising and monitoring production features that drive outcomes for our customers.

Split between offices in Melbourne, Sydney and KL, the team values and adopt working across multiple locations and flexible working arrangements and includes diversity in team members from different cultures and nationalities.

• Permanent position based on hybrid working mode
• We offer extensive employee benefits
• Mature and collaborative working culture
• Work life balance

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.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.