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-Sept-25-wmsaj1UjR6mW

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 2025 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-Sept-25-wmsaj1UjR6mW