Global freelancing marketplace with escrow and logistics divisions
Freelancer.com operates a multi-sided marketplace connecting 85M+ users across freelancing, escrow, and freight logistics. The tech stack (Angular, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ) reflects a distributed, high-traffic platform built for real-time transactions. Active projects in transaction monitoring, fraud mitigation, and payment automation—paired with pain points around scaling marketplace velocity and automating compliance workflows—signal infrastructure maturity challenges typical of a public company managing regulatory and operational risk at scale.
Notable leadership hires: Product Director, Director of Engineering
Freelancer.com is a publicly listed (ASX:FLN, US quote FRLCY) Australian marketplace operator founded in 2009. The core platform hosts over 25M projects across 4,000+ categories. The company also operates Escrow.com, positioned as the world's largest online escrow service, and Loadshift, an Australian heavy-haulage freight marketplace. Revenue is transactional (marketplace take rates and escrow services). The 201–500 employee base is heavily engineering-focused (10 active engineering roles across director-to-junior bands), with compliance and legal teams reflecting the regulated nature of payment and escrow services.
Core stack: Angular, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ. Infrastructure tooling: Terraform, Puppet, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins. The company is actively adopting Terraform and Puppet for infrastructure-as-code maturity.
Headquartered in Sydney, NSW, Australia. Currently hiring in Australia, Philippines, United States, Canada, and United Kingdom across engineering, marketing, product, legal, and finance roles.
Priority projects include transaction monitoring engine development, fraud mitigation, payment process streamlining, design system improvements, and web-scale distributed system optimization. Active focus on CDD/EDD automation and platform integrations reflects compliance and ecosystem expansion.
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