Improved platform to support 10× user growth
Many women face issues returning to the workforce after a career break. FlexCareers connects working mothers with employers offering flexible work — and we helped them scale the platform to over 210,000 users.
Helping people with the hardest jobs in the world
Raising a newborn is one of the hardest jobs in the world — and one of the most fulfilling. To make a child happy, a parent first needs to be happy.
That means a daytime job with flexible arrangements, a real work-life balance, and enough room to properly take care of their child.
More than just a job site
FlexCareers was founded to help parents achieve their career goals without sacrificing their lifestyle or commitments.
The majority of users are female, with an increasing number of men also looking for flexible work arrangements.
A two-sided match between people and jobs
On the job seeker’s side
The algorithm only surfaces jobs that line up with the candidate’s experience, education, location, and flexibility requirements.
On the employer’s side
The algorithm returns the mirror image of the candidate’s experience and skills, creating an instant short-list of candidates best matched to a role.
With access to millions of CVs, the system uses machine learning to analyse career paths and assist both candidates and employers.
When you know, you know
It all started thanks to this article our CEO Krešimir Bojčić wrote about Ruby on Rails.
The FlexCareers team immediately recognised that Krešimir knew what he was talking about — and that Kodius might just have some of the best Rails developers in the world. They were right.
Six years, and counting
We’re proud to be working with such an innovative team as FlexCareers for such a long time — here’s the stack we use to keep the platform growing.
Long-distance love is real
FlexCareers is from Sydney; Kodius is based in Zagreb. Despite an eight-hour time difference, everything goes smoothly.
Working together is easy, and we understand each other perfectly.
The biggest challenges
- Migrating from a single server in Singapore to AWS — cutting downtime, infrastructure cost, and unlocking scale.
- Launching a searchable candidate database with a Rails backend and a stack of external APIs, plus a lot of testing.
- Extensive UI/UX work, especially mobile optimisation.
FlexHub
We also developed FlexHub — the system designed to help employers support their employees as they adapt to processes and grow their skills.
Work in progress
Six years in, we’re still in charge of the platform’s operation, modernisation of the user interface, database maintenance, and the rest of the day-to-day functions.
On top, down under
We expanded and maintained FlexCareers into a game-changing, smoothly-running platform that handles hundreds of thousands of users across Australia and New Zealand.
A great job matching job seekers with jobs
To be continued…
We’ve got many more job seekers to help through FlexCareers.
This innovative, community-changing, attentive, and transparent company genuinely makes a difference — and we’re proud to keep collaborating with them.
We have a large candidate and employer base dedicated to improving job opportunities for females re-entering the workforce or looking for flexible working options. With Kodius, we completed a successful transition of our entire platform to a technology stack far more suited for our current and future growth, resulting in better responsiveness, availability to our users and better protection of our data.
