Senior Software Engineer (Design System)

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make 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 Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

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.

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.

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.