Title: Senior Software Engineer - AI and Platform Capability Location: Cremorne, Melbourne VIC (Hybrid) Engineering - Software (Information & Communication Technology) Full time Add expected salary to your profile for insights Job Description: About Jora Jora offers the opportunity to work in a genuinely research and development-led environment within a multinational technology business. Operating at global scale, Jora aggregates roles from thousands of job sites to help jobseekers access one of the largest real-time sources of opportunities. It's a place for people who enjoy solving complex, high-impact problems in a modern, agile environment, with the chance to contribute to multilingual products that reach millions of people across Asia Pacific. Backed by SEEK, Jora combines strong values, meaningful innovation, and investment in responsible AI with the support of experienced experts and a collaborative team culture. 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. 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 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.

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS with attention to scalability, reliability, security, and automation • Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, including hands-on work with Terraform and experience with CloudFormation • Deploy, administer, and maintain Kubernetes clusters in production environments • Improve platform tooling, deployment workflows, and operational practices that support engineering teams and production systems • Implement and manage observability and monitoring solutions, ideally including experience with Datadog, across metrics, logging, alerting, and incident response • Work with containerized systems and deployment workflows, including image build pipelines and optimization techniques • Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including required experience with GitHub Actions; experience with Jenkins and/or ArgoCD is a plus • Partner with teammates across engineering to identify needs, evaluate options, and deliver practical infrastructure and platform solutions • Investigate platform and infrastructure issues, support root-cause analysis, and contribute to sustainable improvements • Participate in technical planning, architecture discussions, and continuous improvement efforts across the platform engineering function

Company Description Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere. More about our mission and what we offer. Job Description The Platform Engineering tribe provides the core capabilities that enable Wise to build and run its products at scale. The scope is broad, covering compute and data infrastructure, build and release systems, ML and AI capabilities, and incident and resilience tooling, among others — all within a highly innovative and regulated environment. The platform drives mission-aligned outcomes across reliability, efficiency, productivity, and risk. Today, the tribe consists of 30+ teams. As Wise continues to grow and the technology landscape evolves, we need to continually adapt and strengthen our platform to support the next phase of scale. We are expanding our leadership team to help shape this evolution. This role sits within our senior platform leadership group. We’re looking for a proven leader to join us and do things differently. This is a senior leadership role with line management responsibility, combined with a broader mandate to shape the direction of platform engineering at Wise. You’ll start by leading a focused team while taking ownership of a broader, cross-team priority, with scope expected to grow as the function evolves. While you’ll begin with a focused team, your impact will extend well beyond it through influence across the wider engineering organisation. The primary focus is shaping the next evolution of our platform as a cohesive system of capabilities that supports how engineering teams build, ship, and operate software. This includes responding to how emerging technologies, such as AI, are changing developer workflows and platform expectations. This includes improving how we ensure reliability, evolving platform capabilities, and introducing standards and practices where they create leverage — while enabling teams to operate with autonomy. You’ll work closely with teams across Wise to align priorities, introduce new ways of working, and help shape how this space evolves over time. What you’ll do - Lead and develop a small, high-impact team - Set clear direction and ensure delivery against key priorities - Own and drive cross-engineering strategic initiatives focused on evolving platform capabilities - Work across squads to align on priorities, standards, and ways of working - Define and introduce platform standards and practices where they create leverage - Improve engineering effectiveness by evolving platform capabilities, developer workflows, and feedback loops - Translate emerging technologies and trends into practical applications - Help shape operating models, team responsibilities, and ways of working that support scalable engineering - Partner with senior stakeholders to shape strategy and influence decisions - Use data and insight to guide direction and measure impact The experience, background and competencies needed to succeed in this role - Proven experience operating at Director (or equivalent) level within platform or engineering, with strong experience across the software development lifecycle - Strong track record of leading through influence, not just formal authority - Experience owning and delivering cross-team or organisation-wide initiatives - Comfortable working across multiple squads and aligning different priorities - Ability to define and drive strategic themes (e.g. platform, developer experience, or technology shifts) - Ability to think strategically while staying close to execution - Hands-on mindset; able to go deep when needed as well as set direction - Strong problem-solving skills; able to bring clarity to complex and ambiguous areas - Excellent stakeholder management; able to influence senior leaders and peers - Clear communicator; able to simplify complex ideas for different audiences - Data-driven approach; uses data to guide decisions and measure impact - Experience introducing new technologies or evolving existing platforms - Experience improving engineering systems through a combination of technology, process, and culture - Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term thinking - Strong sense of ownership and accountability for outcomes - Collaborative and low-ego approach; builds trust across teams - Experience leading leaders, with the ability to build and scale leadership layers over time - Passion for staying close to industry trends and emerging technologies - Alignment with Wise’s mission and values Leading at Wise Our 4D leadership framework, defined by four key attributes, captures what it means to be an impactful leader at Wise. Our unique culture gives teams and individuals the autonomy to make impactful decisions for our customers. Leaders empower their teams to deliver this impact and champion our culture. - Design: Our leaders design the strategic direction, empowering their teams to operate autonomously and make data-driven decisions that directly benefit our customers. - Drive: They drive a high-performing culture by acting as a coach, nurturing an environment of continuous development and growth. - Develop: Leaders actively develop resilience and emotional intelligence to lead authentically and by example. - Disrupt: They disrupt the status quo by championing change and innovation, constantly seeking new ways to achieve our mission. Additional Information For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive. We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences. Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers. If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs. Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

• Design, deploy, and operate AKS clusters • Own Azure infrastructure provisioning through Terraform (IaC) • Build and operate GitOps-based deployment pipelines using ArgoCD • Operate the platform’s observability stack • Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation • Respond to incidents promptly and lead root cause analysis • Implement security controls in Azure • Document operational runbooks