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.com

Twelve-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 Team

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 a corporate environment, 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.

Requirements:

In this role you will:

• Build and maintain high performance software engineering teams
• Work with engineering teams to develop roadmaps, to define delivery goals and to achieve them within agreed timelines
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders business-wide
• Provide leadership, training and mentoring to other software engineers
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing and practising good engineering practises and habits
• Work well with product managers and other teams to achieve the best outcomes given a number of constraints
• Cultivate a healthy team culture centred on company values

Required experience:

• Experience leading development teams
• Significant experience with building large scale web software
• Experience working in an agile team environment, continuously shipping environment
• 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
• Strong technical skills-we expect you can engage with our senior architects to contribute to technical plans and designs
• Tertiary Degree in Computer Science / Engineering (or related); MSc or PhD a plus

Nice to haves:

• Cloud computing experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with SOA, microservice and containerisation architecture
• Experience with development of public facing APIs
• Experience with web development languages, such as Python and Go
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue
• Experience with relational databases and SQL
• Windows and Linux experience
• Strong knowledge of computer networking
• Sound understanding of OWASP and the best web security practises

Benefits:

• Fast-track your career growth – our meritocratic culture is known for promoting from within and producing industry leaders in tech.
• Delicious Friday lunches from a rotating selection of local restaurants.
• A fully stocked kitchen and beer taps, complemented by a bar with a breathtaking view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House.
• Engaging Weekly Town Halls with global presentations and open Q&A sessions with our CEO (feel free to ask him anything!).
• Hack-a-thons - Get hacking and programming in this quarterly company-wide event where teams create solutions to existing problems and win prizes. The 2-day event is filled with games, events, shows, food and more.
• Our office is located in the iconic Grosvenor Place, the home of Freelancer HQ, offering weekly 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. 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.
• 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.

We are currently looking to add an Engineering Manager to help drive the Product Engineering DXP roadmap. We're seeking an energetic technical leader who is driven by building and leading high performing engineering teams.

We’re location-flexible!  This role is open to all candidates on the east coast of Australia.

This role is hybrid, allowing you to work where and when works best for you.

For this role, we ask that you can demonstrate the following experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, equivalent professional experience in related fields
• 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager or in a similar technical leadership role
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in software development building and maintain large-scale software products
• Proficiency in full-stack development, with expertise in web based languages and frameworks such as Node, TypeScript, React or similar, and cloud platforms such as AWS
• Experience with Agile or other iterative development methodologies. We use Scrum for most of the teams, with some using Kanban
• You have shown your ability to manage multiple projects and priorities, and make decisions that align with business strategy
• Proven track record as a mentor and coach, who has developed teams by growing your people

Nice to have

• Previous experience working on DXP or CMS platforms, or experience integrating or using DXP/CMS platforms
• Experience or knowledge of ISO27001 / SOC1 / SOC2, or previous involvement in attaining and retaining security accreditation at an organisational level

 What you would do (the role day to day): 

• Work across 3-5 software engineering teams to help build our Digital Experience Platform. Each team consists of a Team Lead, and 3 or 4 software engineers at different levels - junior, mid and senior
• Provide regular feedback, conduct performance reviews, and support professional development of Team Leads and Software Engineers
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget
• Drive best practices in software development, code quality, and architecture across our tech stack
• Node
• TypeScript
• React
• AWS
• Cloudflare
• GitLab CI/CD
• Communicate project status, risks, and opportunities to stakeholders
• Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making processes
• Optimise and streamline development processes to improve productivity

Why work for Squiz? 

You’ll work with some of the most intelligent and down to earth people you’ve ever meet. We are made up of a diverse range of passionate professionals who love challenging the status quo. Every day is different, but what is constant is we all love what we do.

We have a lived commitment to flexibility, we know the success of our people is dependent on them having a balanced life. You will be offered flexibility as to where and how you work every day. We want you to be able to work in a way that drives productivity, efficiency and outcomes; along with connection and collaboration.

Who we are: 

Squiz helps complex, service-led organisations harness the power of digital, improving the services they offer online. 

Founded in 1998, Squiz grew during the rise of the internet. Since then, we have evolved from a simple web content management system into a full digital experience platform (DXP), helping customers make the shift from being content managers to experience creators.

The Squiz DXP brings together content, search, data and applications in one place. To get the most out of the platform, customers can collaborate with our digital experts to design solutions and adapt as demands change.  

We are headquartered in Australia, with teams and customers across the globe, and offices in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland.

Come as you are: We celebrate diversity and unite on the elements of our company DNA, starting every customer conversation with “why?” to really understand their needs, working hard to find a way to overcome every challenge, and fighting for better outcomes with the work we do. We also check our egos at door, we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we have fun along the way.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Global Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant

Recruitment Agencies: We politely ask that you avoid making any approaches or sending any unsolicited resumes to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Leaders across our business. Squiz is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

If there is not an Intern position listed above that matches your area of study, register your interest for our 2024 Intern positions.

LEARN FROM OUR COMMITTED TEAM

Emergent Group is a multi-disciplinary engineering and technical sciences group of companies. People are what makes us great. Our teams are smart, creative and love a challenge. We value thinking differently and we understand that diversity of background, experience and opinion leads to better problem solving. If this sounds like your kind of team, come and join us.

About Our Internship Program

Emergent Group is committed to supporting the professional development of students and recent graduates. We offer the opportunity to work with Emergent Group Shared Services, or with one of our member companies – Advitech, Novecom or Acubis.

During your internship, you will learn from a supportive multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers and business professionals including marketing and administration. You can also expect the following:

• Real Work Experience - get involved in actual work, and possibly site work, where you can learn and make a difference
• Mentoring – be guided and supported by experienced industry professionals
• Networking - opportunity to meet with senior people who are working in your field of study to discuss career pathways
• Professional Development – attending speaker sessions, having access to online training courses and making presentations

Our internship program is open to penultimate year university students across engineering, science and business disciplines. We offer flexible work arrangements so you can achieve 200 hours without compromising your study and personal time.

Eligibility Criteria

• Studying a Bachelor Degree
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Detail oriented with excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint)
• Ability to learn new things quickly and independently

The wellbeing of our people is our top priority. During your internship, you will enjoy the following.

• A supportive and collaborative work environment
• Flexible work arrangements
• Free car park including bike parking, showers and lockers
• Social Club activities including monthly lunches

To Apply

Please send us a cover letter telling us why you’d be great for an internship position and submit it along with your resume and academic transcript.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant. We appreciate the time and effort it takes to prepare and submit your application. As a Circle Back Initiative Employer we are committed to reviewing and responding to every applicant. We don’t just contact the short-listed candidates, or leave you wondering. 

Title:

Your KBR future - delivering solutions and changing the world

About KBR:

Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) is a leading Defence and Government professional services provider. In Australia, KBR has been delivering solutions to Defence and Defence industry for over 20 years. We provide in-depth expertise to a wide range of Defence sector projects through our core competencies of program and project management, engineering, asset management, integrated logistics support, procurement and training solutions.

Learn more about our business here: https://kbr.foleon.com/gsapac/gs-apac/

The Opportunity:

As a senior member of the maritime engineering team you will be responsible for supervision of staff and stakeholders, engineering functions, design review facilitation and integration guidance.

This is a critical function that will cross all areas of the sustainment program.  You will provide engineering subject matter expertise, manage project budgets, contractors and suppliers.  Working alongside the Principal Engineer your role will be to mitigate risk and manage progress of engineering teams in line with project scope and deadlines.

This is a permanent opportunity based in Sydney.

Roles and responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Provide expert engineering advice and support to Defence executives, managers, staff and industry partners and customers.
• Manage the required systems engineering services include requirements engineering, integration engineering, verification and validation, test and evaluation, mechanical, electrical, structural and safety engineering.
• Conduct integrated planning, scheduling, risk management and estimating of work/tasks.
• Recommends process, product or service improvements.

Baseline defence security clearance or higher is required to be considered for this role

What we will offer you:
 

• A workplace culture certified as a Great Place To Work
• Flexible working
• Competitive salary (including annual reviews)
• Paid parental leave
• Income protection
• Corporate rewards
• Salary packaging/Novated leasing
• Employee stock purchase plans
• Flu shots, skin checks and discounted private health insurance
• Career development: Online learning, mentorship and career pathways
   

If you’re ready to shape tomorrow, let’s get started. Apply Now!

KBR acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connections to land, sea, community and culture. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive and diverse work environment. We encourage candidates of all abilities to apply.

As a Major Service Provider of the Australian Defence Force, an AGSVA security clearance will be required and compliance to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). As such, our hiring decisions are based on the key requirements of each role and candidates are selected based on their unique strengths and experiences.

Title:

Your KBR future - delivering solutions and changing the world

About KBR:

Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) is a leading Defence and Government professional services provider. In Australia, KBR has been delivering solutions to Defence and Defence industry for over 20 years. We provide in-depth expertise to a wide range of Defence sector projects through our core competencies of program and project management, engineering, asset management, integrated logistics support, procurement and training solutions.

Learn more about our business here: https://kbr.foleon.com/gsapac/gs-apac/

The Opportunity:

As a senior member of the maritime engineering team you will be responsible for technical oversight and assurance incorporating configuration control and material support.  This is a critical function that will cross all areas of the sustainment program.  You will advise on issues of technical integrity, engineering deviations and complex engineering risk.   Working alongside the Principal Engineer your role will be to mitigate risk and be a compliance representative.

These are permanent opportunities based in Sydney.

Roles and responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Actively seek efficiencies and business practices to reduce the cost of ownership and risk to support maritime objectives through engineering excellence.
• Make recommendations on engineering decisions, including the assessment of deviations and waivers and the development of associated risk assessments, the identification and implementation of obsolescence solutions.
• Provide general oversight of technical assurance program.
• Provide support for development, review and update of engineering processes.
• Provide technical support and assistance to the Maritime program at large.

Baseline defence security clearance or higher is required to be considered for this role

What we will offer you:
 

• A workplace culture certified as a Great Place To Work
• Flexible working
• Competitive salary (including annual reviews)
• Paid parental leave
• Income protection
• Corporate rewards
• Salary packaging/Novated leasing
• Employee stock purchase plans
• Flu shots, skin checks and discounted private health insurance
• Career development: Online learning, mentorship and career pathways
   

If you’re ready to shape tomorrow, let’s get started. Apply Now!

KBR acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connections to land, sea, community and culture. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive and diverse work environment. We encourage candidates of all abilities to apply.

As a Major Service Provider of the Australian Defence Force, an AGSVA security clearance will be required and compliance to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). As such, our hiring decisions are based on the key requirements of each role and candidates are selected based on their unique strengths and experiences.

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Our purpose

Here at Datacom, we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.

Our team

This is an excellent leadership opportunity, joining a fantastic team of peers with potential to take your career to new heights! This role is challenging, interesting and integral to the service we provide to our clients via the Endpoint Engineering team. The Endpoint Engineering team is responsible for maintaining the Standard Operating Environment using both traditional and modern toolsets, application packaging and ensuring compliance across our customer environments.

About the Role

This role is available across our offices in Australia: Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane. As an Endpoint Engineering Team Leader, you will lead a team of Endpoint Engineers and application packagers to ensure best practice support methodology is applied and customer outcomes delivered driving high levels of customer satisfaction. Due to the nature of Federal Government clients, Australian Citizenship and NV1 is required as part of the process. After hours and weekend work may be required as well as onsite and remote work.

What you’ll do

As an Endpoint Engineering Team Leader, you will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• Estimating, scheduling and ensuring that all resource planning requirements are sufficient to provide the required levels of availability and support.
• Managing performance and culture of a high-performance team
• Managing team workload and priorities to achieve SLAs
• Managing customer expectations by overseeing the support model.
• Providing technical mentoring and guidance to less experienced members of the team.
• Determining how to use resources to meet service level agreements and support objectives.
• Remedying complex problems and provide technical consultation in line with the established support model.
• Planning systems capabilities and resources to fulfil user requirements.
• Mentoring other engineers in the team to uplift skills.
• Monitoring performance system performance for all corporate platforms.
• Managing the Installation, testing and maintaining system hardware and software.
• Providing guidance and advice within the latitude of established company policies in order to meet schedules and resolve technical problems.

What you’ll bring

We are looking for someone with extensive IT industry experience and 3 years plus in an Endpoint Engineering management role. You are passionate about your work, proactive, client-focused and believes in customer service as a point of differentiation in a service offering. You can work both independently on competing priorities and as part of a team.

Culture and Benefits

Datacom is ones of ANZs largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. As an ANZ company, we have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

At Datacom you'll be recognised and valued for your contributions. We're growing year on year and can provide stability, career opportunity and a collegial, agile, flat-structured environment that empowers people and promotes autonomy. We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours, professional development courses and other retail discounts to name a few. We operate at the leading edge of technology to help ANZ’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

If you would like to know more and this sounds like you. Please apply online today!

Join a worldwide leading design and system integrator of Intelligent Transport Systems. SICE utilises the latest technologies (developed in-house) in ITS & Tunnel management and control systems.

SICE ANZ is currently embarking on exciting growth and we have a great opportunity for an enthusiastic, versatile and results-oriented Engineering Manager to join our team in Sydney.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Offer expertise in integration strategy and contribute to effective project execution, including the management of project-specific activities such as tunnel closures.
• Develop and support commissioning strategies for various projects as required.
• Evaluate and contribute to integration strategies across various projects as required.
•  Define and establish the SICE “Way of Working” when it comes to aligning technical solutions among projects, ensuring well defined and consistent engineering processes within and across projects (e.g.: requirement analysis and traceability, definition of work breakdown structures, design content/phases/COTS, approach to implementation, testing and commissioning), overseeing the selection of tools for projects, such as requirement traceability tools, testing tools, defect management tools, etc., and supporting the establishment and tracking of the above “Way of Working” in all new projects.

• Work closely with local and off-shore SICE’s product team to define, validate and agree required improvements, new functionalities, architecture changes, etc. to conform our product roadmap for Australia.

• Conduct regular audits of technical processes and solutions
• Serve as the technical point of contact for all matters outside project technical issues, including presenting roadmaps and discussing potential new functionalities.
• Propose enhancements to existing clients.
• Support the Business Development team in tenders as required.

The preferred candidate will meet the following requirements:

• Tertiary qualifications in engineering or equivalent experience
• Over 5 years’ of relevant experience in similar engineering management roles, ideally within similar ITS/Tunnels/SCADA projects
• Relevant experience in technical project management, testing and commissioning management within the ITS industry
• Strong knowledge and expertise of engineering processes, tools, and technical solutions within the ITS industry.
• PLC/SCADA architecture knowledge
• Advanced level of use of MS Office tools
• Strong knowledge of testing tools
• Good knowledge and understanding of software development processes and methodologies
• Excellent ability to adjust to new environments and situations
• Strong communication and leadership skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent problem-solving ability and analytical skills
• Ability to work collaboratively as well as autonomously in an efficient manner
• Demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects concurrently.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

• Be part of large scale infrastructure projects.
• Real opportunities for learning and growing in a cross-functional, multi-cultural team.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment where everyone has the chance to make a difference.
• Access to employee benefits such as additional leave entitlements, learning and development, EAP, and more!

SICE ANZ is an Equal Opportunity Employer, inviting you to join an organization dedicated to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative working environment. We actively encourage applications from women, individuals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, and those from diverse backgrounds. Your unique perspectives contribute to our collective strength. Be part of a team that values and celebrates diversity – apply today.

Due to the high volume of applications received, only successful candidates will be contacted. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

Aegros is Latin for ‘Patient’. We chose this name because it speaks to our focus on the patient. Every day we strive to place the patient first by providing therapeutic plasma products they would not otherwise be able to access.

At Aegros we believe access to life saving therapeutic plasma drugs is a human right and not a privilege. In a nutshell our mission is to put the patients first through innovation.

Over 30 years we have developed our HaemaFrac™ process which enables countries to turn human plasma they collect into life saving hyperimmune products.

Here’s the high-level…

Reporting to the Talent Acquisition Leader, this position will have two main purposes: 1) Enable the fast growth across Aegros Engineering with the plans to grow 100+ more Aegrosians (employees) in the next 12 months to work on our pipeline of projects 2) Support the establishment and delivery of our Talent strategy and evolution of our philosophy, approaches, processes, practices

This is a lot more than just another recruiter role, this is a unique experience for someone to lead talent in a start-up environment. This is an environment that will suit some that has vision, ambition and has the grit to pursue extraordinary.

Some of the key areas of focus…and the why.

• Support our ‘scale-up’ particularly around talent planning, acquisition, and onboarding of engineers. Participate in the talent strategy and delivery.
• Diversity is already something we enjoy and cherish, help us continue to this journey with continued in equity in our talent approach and practices.
• Get involved outside of the traditional TA space, by co-leading the creation of our strategies and execution around across the HR ecosystem including total rewards, talent management, learning & development.
• With the ambition of being an employer of choice, support the creation of our first (intentional) Employee Value Proposition.
• Support our social media and digital talent strategies in partnership with our Communications leader.
• Support the HR digital and automation strategy including the implementation and/or optimisation of HR technologies
• With the opportunity to start with the end in mind, help lead the evolution of our processes including how and where we automate and digitise.
• Some of our talent needs are very niche so searching globally isn’t uncommon, that said support and lead the delivery of our global mobility policy development and processes.
• With our first facility going live to commercial in the coming months, partner with the business in creating and delivery of resource management including agile resource allocation, workforce planning and flexible resourcing.

What I’m looking for…

• Tertiary qualification in Human Resources, or related discipline.
• 5+ years in the Talent Acquisition field (either internal or external) recruiting construction/engineer roles
• Experience with permanent and contract hiring highly desirable

• Demonstrated track record in sourcing, assessing and securing top talent in the engineering/construction space
• Talent mapping and pipeline building
• A growth mindset with a track record of creating and adopting innovative programs and practices
• High business acumen through demonstrated experience in supporting the creation of business strategy and identifying organisational and talent implications
• Demonstrated coaching and influencing skills with leaders to drive optimal outcomes
• Proven track record in building strong relationship and trust with business leaders to achieve status of trusted advisor
• Proven ability to diagnose problems and drive effective countermeasures
• Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and identify systemic approaches to problem solving in a continuously changing environment

Here’s what I/we can offer you…

• An environment where you can thrive, we lead through experimentation and engagement with the business.
• A role that will give you the space to lead and challenge you.
• We aren’t perfect but we are a company that is growing and has great ambition. We can offer plenty experiences that will grow you each and every day.
• Competitive remuneration including bonus and employee share option plan
• Close to public transport

Interested? Apply today!