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 are we?
Headquartered in Perth, Australia, Qoria is an ASX-listed global leader in child digital safety.
We are a purpose-driven business, operating under brands like Linewize, Smoothwall, and Qoria.
Our solutions help 32,000 schools and 8 million parents keep 27 million children safe across 180 countries. We identify children at risk and ensure teachers maintain a focus on safe learning in the digital classroom.
What’s the opportunity?
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will guide and drive the engineering direction, quality, and scalability of the core APIs and services that power Qoria’s global platform. You’ll work closely with Engineering Managers and product leaders to design and operate high-performance, highly available services at a global SaaS scale.
You’ll be a technical leader within the Australian arm of our global platform group—shaping architecture, influencing engineering trade-offs, and mentoring other engineers through complex scaling challenges. With some of our APIs serving 2+ billion requests per day, you will play a key role in shaping our platform's future.
This is an opportunity to work iteratively, lead high-impact changes, and learn alongside some of the best engineers in Perth—all while helping keep millions of children safe online.
How we support you (Flexibility & Benefits)
We believe that we do our best work when we feel supported in our professional and personal lives.
- Hybrid Connection: We enjoy a balance of remote and in-person connection, with 2–3 days per week expected in our Perth office.
- Flexible Flow: We offer flexible start and end times to help you coordinate your professional and personal life.
- Family Friendly: We provide a parental leave policy to support our team members during important life transitions.
- Sustainable On-Call: To keep our platform reliable, we have a weekly on-call rotation. This is fully paid and entirely optional.
- Invested in You: We offer an Employee Share Scheme, a Tech Allowance for your home setup, and additional leave days.
What you’ll do
- Lead the design and delivery of reliable, scalable, and high-performance backend services.
- Make informed engineering trade-offs balancing quality, progress, and cost-to-own.
- Mentor engineers and uplift engineering practices across the team.
- Lead technical architecture decisions and guide long-term platform evolution.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to estimate, plan, and deliver high-impact changes.
- Champion high standards for observability, testing, and operational excellence.
- Drive the stewardship of the services you build in production.
What you’ll bring to the team We know that some people only apply for roles when they meet every single criteria. At Qoria, we value transferable skills and diverse experiences; if you don't check every box but are passionate about our mission, we still want to hear from you.
- Engineering Expertise: A strong background in building backend services with languages such as Golang, .NET, or TypeScript.
- Technical Leadership: A proven ability to mentor, guide, and influence other engineers in a supportive and collaborative way.
- System Design: Experience designing and operating distributed, scalable, and cloud-native systems.
- Adaptability: A desire to work technology-agnostically and learn new languages or frameworks as the platform evolves.
- Collaborative Communication: Excellent skills in communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Our Tech Stack (The Bonus List) This list gives you a flavor of our environment. We provide training time for these technologies:
- Languages: Go, TypeScript | Frontend: React / Vite
- APIs: GraphQL, REST, tRPC/gRPC, Protobuf
- Cloud & Infra: GCP, Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), Temporal, Terraform
- Data & Obs: CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, Datadog, OpenTelemetry
More Importantly, You’ll...
Deliver tech with purpose As a Senior Software Engineer here, your work has a real-world impact. You’ll join a mission-driven team where your unique perspective helps us build safer digital spaces for millions of children globally. It feels good to know your code makes a difference.
Belong to a supportive community: Our engineers are more than just technically brilliant—they are mentors and collaborators. We thrive on "we" rather than "I," fostering an environment where it's safe to ask questions, share new ideas, and grow together as a team.
Grow in a learning-first environment: You’ll tackle complex global scaling challenges within a culture that prioritizes sustainable pace and continuous learning. We provide the space and tools for you to master new technologies at your own speed, supported by peers who want to see you succeed.
Own your journey: We believe in careers that fit your life, not the other way around. Whether it’s attending conferences, taking on new leadership initiatives, or exploring different parts of our stack, we provide the resources and flexibility to help you build a career you are truly proud of.
Diversity & Inclusion
At Qoria, we value diverse perspectives and believe that a team with a variety of backgrounds and experiences makes our products—and our community—stronger. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
Requirements
- You must be currently living in Perth, WA or be willing to relocate.
- You must have valid work rights in Australia. (No visa sponsorship available at this time).
Top Skills
What We Do
We are a global technology company, dedicated to keeping children safe and well in their digital lives.
We do it by harnessing the power of connection to close the gaps they fall through, and to seamlessly support them on all sides - at school, at home and everywhere in between.
Our connections define us. We're uniting all parties to advance child digital wellbeing to levels never before seen.
Because none of us is as powerful as all of us.
