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

You’ll be a technical leader within the Australian arm of our global platform group — shaping architecture, influencing engineering trade-offs, mentoring other engineers, and solving complex 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 some of the best engineers in Perth — while helping keep millions of children safe online.

What will you do?

As a Senior Software Engineer at Qoria, you will:

• Lead the design and delivery of reliable, scalable and high-performance backend services
• Make informed engineering trade-offs balancing quality, velocity and cost-to-own
• Mentor engineers and uplift engineering practices across the team
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions and long-term platform evolution
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to estimate, plan and deliver high-impact changes
• Uphold strong engineering standards, observability, testing and operational excellence
• Own your services in production (“You build it, you run it”) with a focus on performance and availability
• Continuously improve processes, tooling and systems to support a multi-product, global SaaS platform

What are we looking for?

Essential Skills & Experience

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience with languages such as Golang, .NET, or TypeScript
• Ability to work technology-agnostic and learn new languages/frameworks quickly
• Experience designing and operating distributed, scalable, cloud-native systems
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability and attention to long-term maintainability
• Proven ability to mentor, guide or influence other engineers
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• A passion for problem-solving, building elegant systems and continuously improving your craftSolid hands-on experience with programming languages like Golang, .Net, Typescript

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.