Senior Software Engineer

At Qwilr we have revolutionised proposal capability. How? By building a highly advanced software platform, utilising some seriously innovative engineering brains belonging to a group of seriously awesome engineers.

Qwilr Engineering has transitioned over a decade of phenomenal pioneering. We’ve built monoliths, dabbled with micro-services, and everything we build is based on cloud-native distributed architecture.

If you want to make an outsized impact, contribute to the existing calibre of highly skilled software engineers and work in a great culture that values your balanced perspective, we look forward to hearing from you.

Read the full job description here: https://team.qwilr.com/Join-Qwilr-as-a-Senior-Software-Engineer-Feb-25-c4hyn1a3Ra2t

About you

• You're talented, humble and empathetic.

• You love teamwork. You enjoy collaborating with others, in and outside of your engineering cohort - working as one, to achieve a shared dream.

• You get stuff done - autonomously, and you reliably deliver your cleanly designed and implemented part of the puzzle that works beautifully with the rest of the puzzle - always.

• You take your engineering team mates on the journey with you. Sharing what you know and learn as you go.

• You're pragmatic in your approach to engineering problems, knowing there are always trade-offs and different times for different approaches. You know what good looks like and how to achieve it, while getting to market nice and early.

• You care deeply about building and operating reliable, scalable, maintainable systems.

• You care deeply about the overall customer experience.

• You're always learning, keen to hone your craft and actively participate in team improvement.

• Your capabilities include elevating the team around you - their quality and velocity is improved by your influence.

• You want to work on, and have a say in, a product that can meaningfully impact people's businesses, across the world.

About the Team:

The team you’ll be working with are passionate about Qwilr as a product, and as an organisation. We strive to bring our A-game with us. Always. In engineering specifically, the broader team consists of an array of full-stack developers, as well as frontend, site reliability, and backend-integrations gurus.

What you’ll do:

• Collaboratively design and deliver software and systems for Qwilr.

• Shape, plan, build and operate Qwilr’s product features.

• Design and implement solutions with an exceptional degree of technical understanding, and a glorious degree of excellence, balanced with an equally glorious desire to get stuff done.

• Demonstrate capability when it comes to solving complex technical challenges cleanly, and with a passion for supportable software.

• Iterate on team development practices and technical excellence/understanding - constantly improving yourself and contributing to the elevation of your Qwilr engineering team.

• Seek a collaborative, clear, shared understanding of project requirements and priorities.

• Find a balance between quality and speed that delivers consistently awesome results, aligned with Qwilr’s overall strategic goals.

• Work autonomously, with a strong bias for collaboration, helping to uplift your team, demonstrating an openness to growth.

Our Stack:

• React, Nodejs, Javascript, Typescript

• MongoDB, Druid

• Kafka, AWS, Eventing, Terraform, Kubernetes

Research supports our observation that some of us - particularly underrepresented groups - feel we need to tick every box in a job ad before applying. If you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit. You can find more about diversity and inclusion at Qwilr here.

About us:

Qwilr is remote-friendly and supports flexible working arrangements. We have Engineers in Adelaide, Melbourne, and various parts of NSW.

• We have a modern, characterful office in Redfern, Sydney, that most of the Sydney-siders attend a few days each week, it's up to you though!

• We value focussed work and endeavour to have meeting-free days to get things done, and "Bonsai Days" each quarter to scratch a technical or product itch

• We offer ZEPO's (equity) for all our employees

• Budget for your home and/or office setup

• $1000 - 2500 for further education, conferences and books

• Company-wide global retreats each year (check out our 2024 Retreat below!)

• Charity donations matching and volunteering days off

And at Qwilr, you'll get to do challenging, rewarding work in a supportive environment with smart and dedicated colleagues

Learn more about our team and how we work here: https://team.qwilr.com/Join-Qwilr-as-a-Senior-Software-Engineer-Feb-25-c4hyn1a3Ra2t