Job Overview

As Director of Engineering at Freelancer (ASX: FLN), you will lead engineering for category‑defining platforms such as Freelancer.com, Escrow.com, and LoadShift, powering over 85 million users globally.

Responsibilities

- Build and scale high‑performance engineering teams that ship production code multiple times daily.
- Drive technical vision and execution, partnering with teams to develop roadmaps, define delivery goals, and achieve them within aggressive timelines while maintaining reliability at Internet scale.
- Architect impactful solutions, collaborating with senior architects to design technical plans that solve complex distributed‑system challenges across messaging, payments, translations, and notification systems processing millions of events hourly.
- Lead through influence, communicating effectively with stakeholders from product managers to the C‑suite, translating technical complexity into business value.
- Elevate engineering excellence by establishing and practicing world‑class habits, maintaining high standards of software quality through code review, testing discipline, and continuous learning.
- Optimize across constraints, working closely with product managers and cross‑functional teams to achieve the best outcomes given competing priorities of speed, quality, and technical debt management.
- Cultivate a championship culture centered on company values, empowering engineers to take charge, improve daily, leverage data, and perform like a qualified sports team.

Qualifications

- Leadership experience managing and scaling development teams,



with a proven track record of building high‑performing engineering organisations that consistently deliver business‑critical systems.
- Internet‑scale engineering expertise, having built and operated large‑scale web software serving millions of users across modern frontend stacks (Angular/React/Vue) and distributed backend systems.
- Agile delivery mastery in continuously shipping environments with multiple deploys per day.
- Technical depth that earns respect, able to engage with senior architects on technical plans and designs.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to articulate technical strategy, influence stakeholders, and mentor engineers.
- Ownership mindset, demonstrating self‑management and accountability for outcomes.
- Learning velocity, with a track record of rapidly acquiring new technologies and applying them to production challenges.
- Problem‑solving creativity, combining troubleshooting skills with innovative thinking.
- Academic foundation with a tertiary degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; MSc or PhD is a plus.

Nice to Haves

- Cloud computing mastery, preferably AWS, with experience architecting for scalability, reliability, and cost optimisation.
- Deep expertise in SOA, microservices, and containerisation using Docker, Kubernetes, and modern orchestration tools.




- Public API design and development experience building developer‑facing platforms at scale.
- Full‑stack proficiency with Python, Go, and modern JavaScript frameworks.
- Database expertise with relational databases, SQL optimisation, and distributed data systems.
- Cross‑platform systems knowledge spanning Windows and Linux environments.
- Networking depth with understanding of load balancing, CDN optimisation.
- Security consciousness with knowledge of OWASP and web security best practices.

Benefits & Culture

- Career acceleration in a meritocracy – impact directly drives trajectory.
- Ownership culture – leadership is rewarded, with opportunities to act like a founder.
- Direct CEO access through weekly Town Halls and unfiltered Q&A.;
- Quarterly hackathons – two‑day innovation sprints competing for prizes and production adoption.
- Technology diversity playground – work with Angular/TypeScript/RxJS, Python/Go microservices, AWS, and distributed systems.
- Global scale challenges – debug systems serving 80 M+ users across multiple products.
- Continuous learning environment across Freelancer.com, Escrow.com, and LoadShift.
- Premium Sydney HQ with harbour views, wellness programs, and weekly building events.
- Friday culture – catered lunches, team celebrations, and informal technical discussions.

Values

We build products that empower over 85 million people, literally helping families, funding education, and creating job opportunities worldwide. Ownership, impact, and continuous improvement are at the core of our engineering mission.

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📌 Director of Engineering (New South Wales)
🏢 Freelancer.com
📍 New South Wales