Staff Software Engineer

Location: Hybrid (Leeds, England, GB); Remote (United Kingdom)

Department: Engineering

About the team:

At Smoothwall by Qoria, the Ingress and Integrations team builds the entry point through which every safeguarding signal from schools reaches our platform. They design and operate the high performance pipelines that ingest over 1.3 billion captures every month from millions of devices, transform and route them securely, and leverage AI technologies to denoise the data so that only the highest risk alerts are escalated to the human moderation team. This team sits at the centre of our technology ecosystem, solving complex problems in scalability, reliability, security and event architecture. Their work directly enables schools and safety professionals to protect children by giving them timely and trusted insight when something is wrong. Joining this team means working on systems that have measurable social impact at a scale where technical excellence truly matters.

What's the opportunity?

Our Staff Engineers are instrumental in tackling complex technical challenges that shape the future of our platform. Operating with high autonomy, they lead by example, apply strong engineering judgement, and influence outcomes across teams. They are trusted to architect resilient systems, drive strategic decisions, and raise the technical bar through coaching and thought leadership. Their impact is not confined to delivery; they play a key role in defining how we build, scale and innovate.

Required technical skills:

• Go for backend development with proven experience at an advanced commercial level (non-negotiable)
• Demonstrable Event driven architecture and distributed system design
• Cloud platforms, ideally GCP, although strong experience with AWS or Azure will be considered
• Advanced SQL knowledge and experience working with large datasets 
• Experience building and operating highly scalable and highly available systems
• Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and Kubernetes management
• Terraform

Bonus skills:

• Experience operating or integrating ML models, ideally using GCP Vertex AI
• Typescript for frontend work with hands-on commercial experience (we use React)
• Automation testing to help QA engineers focus on coverage rather than manual validation
• GCP Build, GCP Deploy
• DataDog
• .Net Core 

What we value in a candidate:

• Critical Thinking: Ability to approach complex challenges with a structured and thoughtful mindset.
• Problem Solving: A knack for finding effective, innovative solutions to technical and product challenges.
• Attention to Detail: A meticulous approach to crafting high-quality, reliable software.
• Simplicity and Efficiency: Good looks like simple & maintainable software.
• Pragmatic Excellence: Striking the right balance between technical rigour, passion for innovation, and pragmatism to deliver exceptional products that support our customers.
• Curiosity: The drive to learn, to probe further and to understand more

Why choose Smoothwall by Qoria?

In this role, you can expect:

• Employee Share Scheme
• Generous leave Allowance
• Tech & Learning Allowance

...... and much more

More importantly, you’ll:

• Deliver tech with purpose...

As a Staff 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 data 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.

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

At this stage we are only accepting applications from those with full working rights in the UK.

About the Company

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, with offices around the world, 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, the Smoothwall brand in the UK, the Qustodio brand in EMEA, and Qoria LK in Sri Lanka.

Our solutions are used by schools, school districts, and parental communities to protect children from harmful online content, identify students at risk based on their digital behaviours, and help teachers maintain focus and safe learning environments in the digital classroom. Today, 30,000 schools and 7 million parents rely on our solutions to help keep 25 million children safe across 180 countries worldwide.