Overview

Senior Software Engineer role at Smoothwall (part of the Qoria family). Join us to deliver tech with purpose, helping keep children safe online. Headquartered in Perth, Australia, with offices globally, Qoria is an ASX-listed global leader in child digital safety technology and services. We operate 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 used by schools, school districts, and parental communities to protect children from harmful content online, identify children at risk based on their digital behaviors, and ensure teachers stay focused and safe 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

This role is part of an exceptional product vertical where you’ll collaborate with world-class engineers and cross-functional teams, contributing to solutions that make a difference at scale.

Responsibilities

• Work across multiple platforms, leveraging low-level OS APIs, networking, and performance optimization techniques.
• Take ownership of projects end-to-end, from ideation through to delivery and ongoing support.
• Collaborate closely with other engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders to ensure outstanding outcomes.
• Bring a DevOps mindset to your work—automating, monitoring, and improving solutions continuously.
• Apply strong critical and analytical thinking to solve complex problems with pragmatic, simple, and effective designs.
• Communicate ideas clearly—both within the engineering team and to wider audiences through documentation, demos, and presentations.

What we are looking for

• A self-starter with a bias for action, ownership, and accountability.
• Experience working across a broad range of technologies, with curiosity and drive to pick up new skills and languages.
• Thrive on understanding the bigger picture and working across teams to deliver impactful outcomes.
• Demonstrates attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly.
• Pragmatic thinker who can balance technical elegance with delivery.
• Ability to get up to speed quickly and hit the ground running.
• A degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar).

Essential Technical Skills

• C++
• Strong experience with low-level OS APIs (Windows/macOS/iOS)
• Proficiency in memory management & performance optimization

Nice to have

• TypeScript
• WebAssembly (WASM) experience
• Advanced Swift knowledge
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts

Why Join Us

• Work on an impact-driven safeguarding system that directly contributes to protecting lives.
• Collaborate with exceptional engineers who excel at what they do.
• Be part of a culture that values ownership, simplicity in design, and pragmatic problem-solving.
• Opportunity to work across a broad spectrum of technologies and platforms as a polyglot engineer.

In this role, you can expect

• Employee share scheme
• Enhanced holiday & family leave
• And more...

We'd love to hear from you. Please submit your application if you would like to be considered for this opportunity.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Industries

• Software Development, IT System Custom Software Development, and Education