Senior Software Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Freelancer.com
Find & hire top freelancers, web developers & designers inexpensively. World's largest marketplace of 50m. Receive quotes in seconds. Post your job online now.Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world, with over 74 million freelancers across the globe. Our marketplace hosts a real life economy, where work is undertaken in every area you can think of. From design, writing, data entry and software development; through to cleaning, plumbing and dog walking - even NASA uses us!
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 corporate, want to work with the best and brightest and don't need to be handheld, this is the job for you.
If you join a mega-cap technology company as the 10,000th hire you might struggle to figure out the impact you are making. If you join a startup, you might get to work on the latest fad, but likely have few mentors to learn from, work on toy problems and never change the world.
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.
Our companies include:
Escrow.com - a global payments system for large ticket items with over $6 billion USD transactions secured.
Loadshift - a global heavy haulage freight marketplace.
So you think you have what it takes to be an Engineer at Freelancer?
We are looking for fullstack senior software engineers. Our team work with the latest tech, and push code 30-40 times a day in a high-performance cloud environment. We develop core, revenue-generating products, and so this represents an opportunity to have a fundamental impact on our global business.
Not only will you build features and software that scale, but your work will have direct impact on tens of millions of users worldwide. You would be architecting web applications at scale, enjoying the challenge of writing optimised lightning fast SQL for massive data sets, you will be structuring extensible data and application logic, and be passionate about designing high quality APIs.
Our advanced Angular codebase runs in the browser for desktop and mobile devices, runs on the server to deliver fast, server-side rendered pages for SEO, and inside our iOS and Android mobile apps, all tested with cutting edge automated test suites.
Requirements:
Musts haves:
- Proficiency in a few web development languages, such as Python, Golang, PHP, Node.js or Ruby
- Experience with relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
- Background or interest in web engineering at scale
- Experience working in an agile team environment, continuously shipping environment
- Linux experience
- Cloud computing experience, preferably AWS
- 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
- Experience with designing and implementing complex software systems
- Experience with mentoring/training junior engineers
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience with SOA, microservice and containerisation architecture
- Experience with development of public facing APIs
- Experience with modern Javascript framework, such as Angular, React or Vue
- Experience with TypeScript
- Strong knowledge of computer networking
- Sound understanding of OWASP and the best web security practices
We would love you to have:
- Strong academic achievements
- MS or PhD degrees
- A Github page with contributions to open source software
- Experience with leading an engineering team
Benefits:
- A meritocratic culture with the ability to take ownership and fast track your career growth.
- You will be working on an Alexa top ranked website, solving complex, internet scale and global challenges in systems engineering with over 60 million customers across 247 countries, regions & territories.
- Weekly Town Halls with the all important Q&A session with the CEO (you really can ask him anything)!
- Friday lunches - We finish each week with a catered lunch. Every Friday we offer a different cuisine from local restaurants.
- Fully stocked kitchens + yes we do have beer taps (and a bar with a killer view!)
- Hack-a-thons - Get hacking and programming in this quarterly company-wide where teams create solutions to existing problems and win prizes. The 2-day event is filled with games, events, shows, food and more.
- Fun events (we once built a soccer stadium in the office with two tonnes of turf).
- Located at Grosvenor Place - Home of Freelancer HQ, this iconic building and location with harbour views with weekly and complimentary classes, activities, events, promotions, competitions and deals
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better:
- Change lives every day – Everything we do as part of our jobs contribute to improving the lives of our users on a global scale.
- Fast-track your career - We boast a meritocratic culture, renowned for hiring into senior roles from within and producing many business and product leaders in the technology industry
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: Agile Angular APIs Architecture AWS Engineering GitHub Golang JavaScript Linux MySQL Node.js Open Source PhD PHP Python RDBMS React Ruby Security SQL TypeScript Vue
Perks/benefits: Career development Lunch / meals Startup environment Team events
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