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Director of Engineering

Sydney, New South Wales💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead engineering teams to architect and scale systems for platforms serving 85M+ users, including a freelancing marketplace, payment ecosystem, and freight logistics platform.

Role type

Director of Engineering (IC + Leadership)

Builds

Production code, distributed systems, and global platforms for freelancing, payments, and logistics

Domain

Internet-scale software, distributed systems, fintech, logistics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Team scaling, technical vision, distributed systems architecture, stakeholder communication, engineering excellence, constraint optimization, problem-solving creativity

Preferred skills

Cloud computing (AWS), SOA/microservices, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), public API design, full-stack proficiency (Python/Go/JS), database expertise, networking, security best practices

Technologies

Angular, React, Vue, Python, Go, JavaScript, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, Linux, Windows

Responsibilities

Build and scale high-performance engineering teams, drive technical vision and roadmap execution, architect distributed systems solutions, lead through influence with stakeholders, establish engineering excellence standards, optimize outcomes across competing priorities

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical contribution

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