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.comTwelve-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 TeamThis 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 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.Requirements:In this role you will:Build and maintain high performance software engineering teamsWork with engineering teams to develop roadmaps, to define delivery goals and to achieve them within agreed timelinesCommunicate effectively with stakeholders business-wideProvide leadership, training and mentoring to other software engineersMaintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing and practising good engineering practises and habitsWork well with product managers and other teams to achieve the best outcomes given a number of constraintsCultivate a healthy team culture centred on company valuesRequired experience:Experience leading development teamsSignificant experience with building large scale web softwareExperience working in an agile team environment, continuously shipping environmentStrong writing and verbal communication skillsStrong sense of ownership and able to self-manage workSelf-motivated and tracked-record of learning new technologiesStrong troubleshooting skills and creative problem-solving abilityStrong technical skills-we expect you can engage with our senior architects to contribute to technical plans and designsTertiary Degree in Computer Science / Engineering (or related); MSc or PhD a plusFreelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by number of users and projects.
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