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. We work with everyone from consumers to NASA in over 2,000 areas as diverse as website development, marketing, copywriting, astrophysics, aerospace engineering and manufacturing.Freelancer owns Escrow.com, the world's largest online escrow company with over US$6 billion in transactions secured, powering the sale of jet parts to oil wells. Freelancer also owns Loadshift, a marketplace with more freight on a typical day than the distance from the earth to the moon, with over 550 million kilometres posted since inception.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 run a meritocracy - we actively promote from within.You'll also change lives - our mission is to provide one billion jobs. Not many companies actually make a difference like Freelancer does in providing opportunity and income to people all around the world.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. Our backend powers a large suite of services running a modern global marketplace; messaging, payments, translations, file services and a notification system sending millions of notifications an hour. We deploy code to production multiple times a day.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 practicing good engineering practices 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 plusNice to haves:Cloud computing experience, preferably AWSExperience with SOA, microservice and containerization architectureExperience with development of public facing APIsExperience with web development languages, such as Python and GoExperience with relational databases and SQLWindows and Linux experienceStrong knowledge of computer networkingSound understanding of OWASP and the best web security practicesFreelancer.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. Through our marketplace, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software development, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering, the sciences, sales and marketing, accounting and legal services.
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