Global freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace with escrow and freight arms
Freelancer.com runs an online marketplace matching clients with freelancers, plus owned escrow and heavy-haulage freight businesses. Its stack spans AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware and OpenStack with four config tools (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible), which points to layered infrastructure history. Current job posts focus on treasury, FX hedging and payment success rates, alongside a moonshot innovation program with NASA-linked federal challenges.
Notable leadership hires: Director of Engineering
Freelancer.com is a publicly listed marketplace headquartered in Sydney, NSW, founded in 2009, connecting businesses with freelancers across thousands of work categories, from software and design to engineering. The group also operates Escrow.com for online escrow services and Loadshift, a freight marketplace for heavy haulage in Australia. It employs 201–500 people and hires across Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Its offering covers project postings, contests, and corporate and government innovation challenges.
Freelancer.com runs on AWS, GCP and Azure with Docker and Kubernetes, managed via Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and Chef. Core services use PHP, Python, Go, Node.js, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and RabbitMQ.
Freelancer.com is headquartered in Sydney, NSW, Australia, and hires in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Job posts point to a moonshot innovation program, federal innovation challenges via NASA task orders, an FX hedging framework, expanded local banking arrangements and a scalable treasury function.
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