Software Engineer
Freelancer.com, Philippines
Job Description
Freelancer Limited, the ASX-listed company that owns Freelancer.com and Escrow.com, is hiring. Ten-time Webby award-winning Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace, which connects millions of employers to freelancers across the globe. Escrow.com is a global fintech industry leader in secure online payments, having handled over US$3.5 billion in transactions buying and selling boats, cars, airplanes, jewelry, fine art, and even trips to the planned Aurora space station in 2021!
We think it is pretty cool that 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 sales, marketing, accounting and legal services - even NASA uses us!
We are looking for full-stack 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. So if you excel at architecting web applications at scale, enjoy the challenge of writing optimised lightning fast SQL for massive data sets, have experience structuring extensible data and application logic, and are passionate about designing high quality APIs, then we'd love to hear from you!
Requirements
- Tertiary Degree in Computer Science / Engineering (or related)
Must haves:
- Proficiency in a few web development languages, such as Python, Golang, PHP, Node.js, Rust 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
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
Benefits
This won’t be a cog-in-the-machine type of job; you will be joining a global company that values attitude and capability over experience, so if you are looking to make a difference and be rewarded for your efforts, this is the place for you.
We are striving to shape the future of work, so help us scale to 100+ million users, while enjoying all the perks of working in tech - fun atmosphere, smart people, awesome office, fully-stocked kitchens (yes, free food!), social events, hackathons, and more!