Senior Software Engineer (Design System)
The team
The Experience Platforms team are responsible for guiding the development of experiences at SEEK. Within Design Systems this includes building and supporting a multi-platform design system, a zero-install code-orientated design environment, and a library for enhancing the predictability of text sizing and layout.
We design, develop and deliver tools and platforms used by SEEK to build performant and consistent experiences for our users. We manage our own roadmap in close consultation with our customers – the SEEK engineering and design community.
We define our own ways of working, striving to bring a balance of passion and pragmatism to everything we do. We embrace flexible working arrangements from hybrid through to fully remote. We have a particularly strong culture of open-source development. The open-source projects our team maintains includes the Braid Design System, Playroom and Capsize.
About the role
The Senior Software Engineer role is a key technical contributor and collaborative force within our SEEK Group engineering teams. In this role, you will work closely with a small group of engineers, providing technical mentorship and guidance, while playing a central part in delivering high-quality software within the Design Systems team. You will champion engineering best practices, drive continuous improvement, and help elevate the overall standard of technical excellence across the team.
Your primary focus will sit at the intersection of design and engineering - writing clean, scalable, and testable code while upholding high-quality development practices and standards. You will bring a strong design sensibility to your technical work, ensuring that the components and tooling you build are not only functionally robust but also visually coherent and true to the design intent. By bridging the gap between design and code, you will leverage your unique expertise to contribute to and drive the evolution of the Design System, ensuring it continues to meet the ever-changing needs of the product delivery teams that depend on it.
Responsibilities
Build
- Build, test, deploy and maintain software from development through to production.
- Troubleshoot and manage support requests from product delivery teams through to resolution.
- Build highly scalable and performant design system foundations in alignment with existing frameworks and SEEK's technology strategy.
Execute
- Strengthen engineering discipline and team capability.
- Consistently write clean, well-tested, readable software, using secure coding practices, current patterns and tooling.
- Develop systems thinking around design token architecture, component composability, and maintainable APIs that serve a diverse range of consuming teams at scale.
Support
- Act as a key contributor to communities of practice at SEEK, championing design system adoption and advocacy across the organisation.
Qualifications
Skills and experience
Technical
- Extensive knowledge of React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript & TypeScript.
- Experience developing applications in accordance with accessibility guidelines, including familiarity with ARIA guidelines and screen reader technologies.
- Experience working on or contributing to a Design System, component library, or shared frontend platform.
Leadership
- Ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional stakeholders, including product, design, and engineering peers.
- Experience contributing to or influencing the governance of a Design System, including component contribution models, versioning strategies, and deprecation processes.
Personal
- Strong communicator, able to present to and influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Open-minded collaborator with a growth mindset, who actively seeks and incorporates feedback.
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
- Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
- The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
- Tailored career development planning (including Education Assistance Program)
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.