Software Engineer (Frontend) - Design System

We are growing our engineering team and on the lookout for new engineers to take our company to the next level.

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 corporate, 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 10000th 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.

You’ll get a chance to be exposed to a wide variety of technologies across our businesses. Freelancer.com is a globally recognised website with a cutting-edge frontend stack incorporating Angular, TypeScript and RxJS. A Frontend engineer is very similar to the software engineer role at Freelancer but with an emphasis on frontend development aspects. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Building and maintaining our Design System and its component library to ensure a consistent and scalable UI across all our products
• Creating high-quality, reusable UI components using Angular, TypeScript, and CSS
• Working closely with designers and product managers to implement seamless, delightful user experiences
• Conducting code reviews and providing mentorship to help raise the bar for frontend quality and performance
• Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, usability issues, and frontend bugs across the platform
• Participating in architecture discussions and helping shape the frontend direction of our platform
• Contributing to the evolution of our frontend best practices and internal tooling
• Collaborating across engineering teams to support adoption and integration of the design system company-wide

Must haves:

• Tertiary Degree in Computer Science / Engineering (or related)
• 3+ years of experience working with frontend frameworks and technologies - JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Angular/React/Vue
• Ability to write reusable UI components
• Experience working with a design system
• Experience with automated testing for frontend code
• Experience working in an agile, continuously shipping environment
• Unix or Linux experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to self-manage work
• Self-motivation and a track record of learning new technologies
• Strong troubleshooting skills and creative problem-solving ability

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with Angular and RxJS
• Knowledge of key design principles
• Knowledge of accessibility principles
• Understanding of SEO principles
• Experience with page speed optimisation
• Experience contributing to open source software

Benefits:

• A meritocratic culture with the ability to take ownership and fast track your career growth.
• You will be working on an Alexa top ranked website, solving complex, internet scale and global problems in product & engineering with over 80+ million users across 247 countries, regions & territories.
• Fully stocked kitchens + yes we do have beer taps (and a bar with a killer view)!
• Catered lunches once a week
• Weekly Town Halls with the all important Q&A session with the CEO (you really can ask him anything)!
• Quarterly hackathons with a huge prize pool!
• Regular team building events (think speed boats in the harbour, escape rooms, karaoke, laser tag, trivia nights, poker nights in the office)!