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Senior Engineer - Ruby on Rails

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In-Office
North Sydney, New South Wales
Senior level
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North Sydney, New South Wales
Senior level
As a Senior Engineer, you will build scalable applications, work on data pipelines, ensure user data security, and participate in business decision-making.
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Company Description

About Jora

A SEEK start-up, Jora is a job search platform, headquartered in Melbourne and operating on a global scale. Jora aggregates employment opportunities from thousands of different job sites to offer jobseekers the largest source of job opportunities in real time. Jora is focused on continually improving and expanding its product offering to fuel rapid growth.

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 for the fourth year in a row. 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.

Job Description

The Role

As a Senior Engineer working in one of our autonomous, cross-functional squads, you will make a significant technical contribution to the successful delivery of the various business priorities as well as continuous improvement of our technical platforms. As part of the Jora team, you'll enjoy working in a start-up culture with the backing and support of a larger company. We are hardworking, open-minded and passionate about crafting phenomenal products and delivering real value for our users.

You'll play a meaningful role in:

  • Building applications that scale for rapid international growth
  • Working on Data Pipelines and AI enrichment 
  • Building Web Crawling technology 
  • Protecting the security and privacy of the user data and architecture
  • Have real involvement in the business direction of the product
  • Be across the full development cycle

The Team

The Engineering team is the largest team in Jora with more than 30 engineers. The team is split across the four main domains of aggregation, candidate, employer and native apps. Operating in a true start up environment and culture, we love to take a data driven and analytical approach to developing, prioritising and monitoring production features that drive outcomes for our customers.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

Innovative Atmosphere: Be at the forefront of technology in a company that embraces creativity and forward-thinking.

Collaborative Culture: Join a team that values respect, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Career Growth: Tackle challenging projects and advance your career in a supportive and dynamic environment.

Meaningful Impact: Work on initiatives that make a real difference to our customers and the community.

Full-Stack Environment

While our team covers both front-end and back-end development, we’re particularly interested in candidates with strong back-end expertise. Experience in front-end development is a plus but not required.

Split between offices in Melbourne, Sydney and KL, the team values and embraces working across multiple locations and flexible working arrangements and boasts a large diversity in team members from different cultures and nationalities.

Qualifications

  • Solid experience building and maintaining software written in 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, Fargate, Lambda, etc.)
  • Experience with multiple database technologies such as Postgres
  • 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 and maintains continuous delivery pipelines using current practices, patterns & tooling 

Additional Information

Perks and benefits

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
  • Tailored career development planning (including Education Assistance Program)

Here at SEEK we pride ourselves on harbouring a flexible and inclusive working environment. 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.

Top Skills

AWS
Buildkite
CloudFormation
Fargate
Lambda
Postgres
Ruby On Rails
Teamcity

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