apidays LIVE Australia 2021 - Accelerating Digital September 15 & 16, 2021 SEEK: Establishing a new API integration platform Jonathan Cleary, Principal Developer at SEEK

1. Establishing a new API
integration platform
Jon Cleary
Principal Software Developer

2. Let’s talk about SEEK
Founded in 1997. The original disruptor.
Our primary revenue source and most well-known product is
SEEK.com.au, but we have several other sites.
We’ve grown. A lot.
Undertaken two mammoth technology transformations.

4. api integrations
SEEK candidates
SEEK jobs
recruitment software
SEEK hirers
post jobs
receive applications
connects via
landscape
website
+ 94 more
53% of job ads
47% of job ads

5. 97
Third party recruitment providers
130k
Jobs posted to SEEK via our APIs per month
1.2mill
Job applications retrieved via our APIs per month
45%
of SEEK revenue is through our API channel

6. Separate APIs and
authentication methods
Inconsistent integration
approaches
Regional job board-specific APIs
Where we were (and still are in some respects)…

7. api

8. Auth0

9. What is GraphQL?

10. REQUEST
RESPONSE

11. Why GraphQL?

12. Reduced partner integration effort
Consumer-centric schema
Less chatty
Less support overhead
Evolve backend without affecting partners
Maintain performance and scalability
Interactive Self-documenting

16. Self-service
Observable
Scalable
Consistent

17. Self-service

18. Self-
service

19. Self-
service

20. Self-
service

21. Self-
service

22. Observable

23. Observabl
e

24. Observabl
e

25. Observabl
e

26. Scalable

27. Object identifiers
seekAnz:positionProfile:jobAd:2782PZfXV
Object name
Scheme ID Source/namespace
Encoded payload
Scalable

28. Webhooks
Partner system
api .com.au
Candidate
Applies for job
Webhook service
Job goes live
Job gets expired
Candidate applies
• PositionProfilePosted
• PositionProfileClosed
• CandidateApplicationReceived
• HirerRelationshipChanged
POST
New hirer onboarded
Scalable

29. The implementation
squad
And finally…
Delivery team Implementation squad
Scalable

30. Consistent

31. Continuous
delivery
30-40+ deployments
a day
Consistent

32. Automated testing
Unit test & lint pass
Schema changes won’t affect partners
Smoke test pass
Integration test pass
Test examples on developer.seek.com
Fuzz test pass
Consistent

33. Breaking change detection
Smoke test failure
Fuzz failure
Consistent

34. Consistent

35. api
Consistent

36. We plan to migrate all our API partners by the end of this FY

38. Questions?
Jon Cleary