Software Engineer

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.