Senior Software Engineer - AI and Platform Capability

Job Description

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join us as a high-impact individual contributor working across some of our most strategic engineering initiatives, with a strong focus on AI-driven projects. This is not a role anchored to a single team from day one; instead, you’ll be deployed where your skills can create the most value, from initiatives such as Google Vertex AI Search, Assisted Apply and Agentic AI experiments, to improving development workflows with tools like Claude Code and helping shape the foundations of our AI engineering practice. You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy moving between architecture, problem solving and hands-on delivery, and if you’re energised by ambiguity, shifting priorities and the opportunity to bring clarity, momentum and sound judgment in fast-moving environments.

Leadership & Influence

This role is suited to someone who can lead through influence, building alignment across teams and shaping technical direction without relying on formal authority. They will play a key role in guiding important technical decisions, establishing the practices and standards others follow, and helping mature SEEK’s approach to AI development. To succeed, they will need to communicate complex technical concepts with clarity and credibility to a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leaders, product partners, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute as a senior individual contributor across high-priority strategic initiatives, particularly in AI and platform capability

• Design, build and deliver scalable, secure and maintainable solutions across the stack, with a strong back-end focus

• Work hands-on in existing codebases and quickly ramp up in new languages, frameworks and systems as needed

• Help shape our AI engineering practice, including approaches to tooling, workflows, standards and ways of working

• Partner across teams to influence technical decisions and drive alignment without formal authority

• Translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for product leaders, directors and other non-technical stakeholders

• Bring structure, clarity and momentum to ambiguous problems, identifying what needs to be done and driving it through to delivery

Qualifications

• AI engineering experience, including hands-on work with LLMs, AI platforms, or AI-augmented development workflows

• Polyglot coding ability, with comfort working across different codebases and languages such as Ruby, TypeScript and Python

• A technologist at heart, with curiosity and enthusiasm for solving problems across a broad range of technologies

• Startup or ambiguous environment experience, with a track record of operating in environments where they had to define the work, not just execute it

• Systems design capability, with the ability to architect end-to-end solutions with an eye for scalability, security and long-term maintainability

• High agency, with a self-directed, proactive and accountable approach without needing close management

• Communication skills that enable them to translate technical complexity for executive and non-technical audiences

Additional Information

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• 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 leave
• 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.