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 are we?
Headquartered in Perth, Australia, 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, under the ‘Smoothwall’ brand in the UK, and under the ‘Qoria’ brand in EMEA & Sri Lanka. Our solutions are utilised by schools, school districts and their parental communities to protect children from seeing harmful content online, to identify children at risk based on their digital behaviours and to ensure teachers maintain focus and safe learning in the digital classroom. 27k schools and 6 million parents depend on our solutions to keep 22 million children safe in 180 countries around the world.

What’s the opportunity ?

The Software Engineer role is to build and maintain fit-for-purpose software components, where build encompasses all work required to take a component from designed to ‘in use’.

Our successful Software Engineer owns the day-to-day tradeoff between quality, time-to-build and cost-to-own. They work in close conjunction with an Engineering Manager and other engineers, together ensuring that their changes are estimated accurately, delivered to specification, and have high quality and low cost of ownership. The question they must continually ask themselves is “Am I making the right engineering trade-offs for this component?”

Here’s how you’ll do it:

The quality of your work: Deliver work we are all proud of. Code is written to a high standard, and follows the conventions set by the team. Important aspects include, in consultation with your manager and other engineers (and especially QA Engineers), software that is easily testable and actually tested, and through that work correct and reliable. Depending on context, quality might include an emphasis on maintainability, readability, extensibility, generality, scalability and cost of ownership.

Fit-for-purpose Design: Supported by your manager and peers, you spend time mindfully designing software that meets the specification and coheres with other parts of the system. Design is detailed enough to estimate work. It is based on an understanding of impacts on customers and other components, and includes explicit identification of and mitigations for risks (e.g. privacy, security, dependencies).

Professional Growth: The baseload work of Software Engineers is of course the actual delivery of software. You should be a little better tomorrow than you are today. You are therefore are responsible for identifying and critically evaluating tools, techniques, trends and patterns, and the intentional application of them that most benefits the component being delivered. Our software engineers grow within the role, you are expected to have a positive influence on the professional growth of others and a positive impact on the team.

What you will bring:

• 3+ years of experience in developing high quality, reliable software

• Strong programming skills in at least one of the following languages; Go, Typescript, C++ or Windows Software Development

• Strong proficiency in data structures, algorithms and version control.

• Understanding of testing methodologies and software design patterns.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with diverse teams

• Strong analytical skills to evaluate user requirements and translate them into effective designs

• A curious mindset, and a desire to learn new technologies

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

  .... and much more

More importantly, you’ll:

• Deliver tech with purpose...

As an 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 solving problems for a global engineering team that has a user base in the tens of millions. 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.

Shortlisting will commence immediately.