hipages Group

hipages Group operates two-sided marketplaces - hipages in Australia and Builderscrack in New Zealand - connecting homeowners with tradespeople at scale. Founded in 2004, the company now spans offices in Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Vietnam, with a team of 200+. A new job is posted on the platform every 25 seconds, and over 12 million jobs have been facilitated to date. That volume means a constant stream of sensitive data: homeowner details, location information, payment flows, and the identity and reputation of hundreds of thousands of tradies. For a security team, the threat model is concrete. The platform processes high-frequency transactional data across two countries, handling PII at scale for both sides of every job matched. Account takeover, fraud in job postings or payments, and supply-chain risks across a multi-country engineering footprint are the everyday problems - not hypothetical. The company's presence in four countries adds complexity around data residency, regional compliance requirements, and distributed access control. What's on offer is a security role in a marketplace business where uptime and trust are direct revenue levers. If the platform goes down or trust erodes, jobs stop flowing and tradies lose work - making the stakes tangible and the work measurable. hipages Group's 'One-Team' culture and a workforce of 200+ suggest a lean enough org that security engineering likely spans hands-on incident response, infrastructure hardening, and product security rather than narrow specialization.