Staff Engineer (Ruby)

The Role

Staff Engineer is a technology leader and key member of our engineering teams. In this leadership role you will shape the future vision of the team, as well as ensuring our solutions are meeting our business and technical needs across SEEK’s Asia and Pacific markets. You will lead the overall technical alignment, health, capability and performance of the platform. You will also provide people leadership through mentoring, developing or line managing other engineers.

Key stakeholders include:

 Engineering Manager
 Product Manager
 Engineers
 UX Designers

Key responsibilities include:

 Contributing to our overall technology strategy and aligning systems with that strategy.
 Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected and follow current Jora development
practices.
 Maintaining platform health, ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient and cost
effective.
 Driving customer focus to ensure we are delivering valuable outcomes for our customers.
 Growing the team’s technical capabilities through coaching and mentoring.
 Helping to drive cross-team collaboration, decision making and accountability

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 manage stakeholder expectations, facilitate groups and
resolve conflicts
 Focuses on outcomes over outputs
 Builds trust, safety and inclusion in teams

Technical Skills

 Solid 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