Software Engineer

*Want to deliver tech with purpose, with people who care?*

*Join us in our mission to create solutions that help keep children safe online.*

*Who we are?*

Headquartered in Perth, Australia, with offices globally, Qoria is an ASX listed global leader in child digital safety technology and services. We are a purpose-driven business, operating under the ‘Linewize’ brand in North America and Asia Pacific, the ‘Smoothwall’ brand in the UK, and the ‘Qoria’ brand in EMEA and Sri Lanka. Our solutions are utilised by schools, school districts, and parental communities to protect children from seeing harmful content online, identify children at risk based on their digital behaviours and ensure teachers maintain focus and safe learning in the digital classroom. 30.000 schools and 7 million parents depend on our solutions to keep 25 million children safe in 180 countries around the world

*What’s the opportunity?*

As a

*Software Engineer,*

you will contribute to the engineering quality, reliability and scalability of core APIs and services that power Qoria’s global platform. You’ll work closely with Engineering Managers, product teams and other engineers to design, build and operate high-performance, low-cost and highly available services at global SaaS scale.

You’ll play an important role within the Australian arm of our global platform group — contributing to architectural discussions, making good engineering trade-offs, and helping solve interesting scaling challenges. Some of our APIs serve 2+ billion requests per day, with a rapidly growing customer base.

This is an opportunity to work fast, ship continuously, and learn from experienced engineers in Perth — while helping keep millions of children safe online.

*What will you do?*

As a Software Engineer At Qoria, You Will

Build and enhance reliable, scalable and high-performance backend services

Make well-informed engineering trade-offs balancing quality, velocity and maintainability

Contribute to engineering practices and collaborate closely with your team

Participate in technical discussions and support long-term platform improvements

Work with product and engineering teams to estimate, plan and deliver meaningful changes

Follow strong engineering standards, with good observability, testing and operational discipline

Help operate the services you build in production (“You build it, you run it”)

Contribute to improving processes, tooling and systems for a global SaaS platform

*What are we looking for?*

Essential Skills \& Experience

Solid hands-on software engineering experience with languages such as Golang, .NET, or TypeScript

Ability to work technology-agnostic and learn new languages/frameworks as needed

Exposure designing and operating distributed, scalable, cloud-native systems

Strong sense of ownership, accountability and commitment to maintainable code

Willingness to collaborate, communicate effectively and support your team

A passion for problem-solving, building clean solutions and continuously improving your craft

*What's our tech stack?*

This list hopefully gives you a flavour for the sort of team we are. If you have some exposure to or awareness of a few of these as well that is a bonus

Languages - Go, TypeScript

Frontend frameworks - React/Vite

API technologies - GraphQL, REST, tRPC/gRPC, protobuf

Cloud services - GCP

Databases - CockroachDB, PostgreSQL

Performance - Our APIs get millions (or even billions) of requests per a day, and need to operate 24/7/365 so our software performance matters for scalability, resiliency and cost.

Container / execution orchestration platforms - Docker, Kubernetes (GKE) and Temporal

We follow the DevOps principle “You Build It, You Run It” - You will help operate your services in production

Observability tools - Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus

Why Choose Qoria

*In this role, you can expect:*

Employee Share Scheme

Additional leave days

Tech Allowance (to help fund a great WFH setup)

Technical study groups and veterans to learn from

Flexibility

Training time in languages/technologies we use (specifically Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Datadog, Argo, Terraform)

.... and much more

More Importantly, You’ll

Deliver tech with purpose...

As a Software Engineer here, your work truly matters. Your skills, knowledge and ideas will all help children stay safe online. It feels good to do good.

With people who care...

Our Engineers are amazing! They’re also amazingly supportive. We all take ownership of our work, end to end. And at the same time, we really care about growing and winning together.

Through work that you love...

You’ll get to work on technology and scaling challenges for a global customer base. And you'll be exposed to modern technologies and processes, in a fast-paced and supportive learning environment.

And a career that you own...

This role offers so many opportunities to expand your skills and grow your career. You’ll get to attend local software conferences, paid for by us. And as you step up and take ownership to make things happen, you’ll carve out an incredible career.

*You must be currently living in Perth WA and have work rights in Australia. No visa sponsorship.*

*Shortlisting will commence immediately.*