Software Engineer - AIPS

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK is a diverse group of companies, comprised of a strong portfolio of online employment, educational, commercial and volunteer businesses. SEEK operates across 18 countries globally and is a market leader in 14 of these, and across our global footprint we have exposure to some of the world’s largest economies and early stage markets with large and growing populations. SEEK makes a positive contribution to people’s lives on a global scale.

SEEK is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, where it is a top 60 company with a market capitalisation over A$10billion and has been listed in the Top 20 Most Innovative Companies Globally by Forbes, and Number One in Australia.

For more than twenty years, SEEK has been an integral part of Australians’ job-search process, and as the country’s leading employment marketplace is uniquely positioned to empower Australians with career, education and volunteer opportunities to create productive and fulfilling working lives.

The Team

The AI & Platform Services (AIPS) team exists within the Seek Group and provides AI-centric core services that scale globally including search, behavioural tracking, recommendations, candidate matching, ontological services and personalisation. AIPS works primarily with internal partners, providing services to these partners, who in turn deliver products to customers (candidates, hirers).

Members of the AIPS team fall into one of three primary roles

• AI (artificial intelligence and machine learning)
• Strategy (business, product, go to market)
• Engineering (development, DevOps, responsible for production systems)

People representing each of these roles are combined into squads which are in turn responsible for related sets of business services.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Turn sophisticated requirements into practical solutions
• Design and implement robust, scalable components with a focus on performance
• Own system components, including implementation and managing technical debt
• Ensure high service availability and meet SLAs
• Collaborate with data scientists, ontologists, and engineering managers in an agile environment
• Contribute to system roadmaps and capacity planning
• Develop comprehensive testing strategies
• Drive continuous delivery practices and improve team efficiency
• Support and mentor team members, removing obstacles
• Balance immediate delivery needs with long-term sustainability
• Design and conduct experiments to evaluate algorithms
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical services
• Align technical solutions with AIPS strategy and objectives

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of software development experience
• Proficient in Python & TypeScript; Scala experience is a plus
• Strong experience with AWS cloud platform
• Understanding of machine learning, deep learning, and LLMs
• Experience with functional programming is a plus
• Proven track record to build and maintain scalable, resilient systems
• Skilled in crafting robust software architecture
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices

Professional Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong collaborator management and requirements gathering
• Clear and effective communication
• Success in cross-functional teamwork
• Dedication to continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with ontology and knowledge graph systems
• Experience with AI/ML platforms and services

Additional Information

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• SEEK is committed to operating sustainably, certified carbon neutral for its business operations (through Climate Active), purchasing renewable energy for our office and working-from-home emissions and a target for net zero by 2030. 
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year

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.

For this role, only those candidates with the 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.