Qoria, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Software Engineer
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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?
* 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?
* 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?
* Languages – Go, TypeScript
* Frontend frameworks – React/Vite
* Performance – Our APIs get millions (or even billions) of requests per 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
* 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seniority level
* Mid‐Senior level
Employment type
* Full‐time
Job function
* Technology, Information and Media
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