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We are on the lookout for a Director of Engineering at Freelancer.com to join our rapidly expanding team to take it to the next level.
About Freelancer.com
Twelve-time Webby award-winning Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and projects posted with more than 66 million users who have posted 22 million jobs.
The Freelancer Engineering Team
This won't be your typical cog-in-the-machine type of job. If you're a high achiever with talent, looking for something more than a boring job in a corporate environment, want to work with the best and brightest and don't need to be handheld, this is the job for you.
At Freelancer you'll get to work on a highly diverse, global set of internet-scale challenges where you will make a meaningful difference with real responsibility, while rapidly building your skills. We run a meritocracy - we actively promote from within.
We have a very wide range of engineering challenges to sink your teeth into. You'll get a chance to be exposed to a wide variety of technologies across our businesses. Freelancer.com is an Alexa top 1000 website with a cutting-edge frontend stack incorporating Angular, TypeScript and RxJS.
Requirements:
In this role you will:
Build and maintain high performance software engineering teams
Work with engineering teams to develop roadmaps, to define delivery goals and to achieve them within agreed timelines
Communicate effectively with stakeholders business-wide
Provide leadership, training and mentoring to other software engineers
Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing and practising good engineering practises and habits
Work well with product managers and other teams to achieve the best outcomes given a number of constraints
Cultivate a healthy team culture centred on company values
Required experience:
Experience leading development teams
Significant experience with building large scale web software
Experience working in an agile team environment, continuously shipping environment
Strong writing and verbal communication skills
Strong sense of ownership and able to self-manage work
Self-motivated and tracked-record of learning new technologies
Strong troubleshooting skills and creative problem-solving ability
Strong technical skills-we expect you can engage with our senior architects to contribute to technical plans and designs
Tertiary Degree in Computer Science / Engineering (or related); MSc or PhD a plus
Nice to haves:
Cloud computing experience, preferably AWS
Experience with SOA, microservice and containerisation architecture
Experience with development of public facing APIs
Experience with web development languages, such as Python and Go
Experience with relational databases and SQL
Windows and Linux experience
Strong knowledge of computer networking
Sound understanding of OWASP and the best web security practises
Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by number of users and projects. We connect over 23,692,145 employers and freelancers globally from over 247 countries, regions and territories.
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