Mission
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 we are
Headquartered in Perth, Australia, with offices globally, 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, and the ‘Qoria’ brand in EMEA and Sri Lanka.
Our solutions are utilised by schools, school districts, and parental communities to protect children from seeing harmful content online, identify children at risk based on their digital behaviours and ensure teachers maintain focus and safe learning 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.
Location
UK (Hybrid in Leeds or Remote)
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 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.
Role level and growth
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?
* Employee Share Scheme
* Generous leave Allowance
* Tech & Learning Allowance
* and much more
In This Role, You Can Expect
* Deliver tech with purpose
* Work on systems that directly protect children worldwide
* Own product development and release roadmaps via SCRUM
* Lead trials, MVPs, and educational initiatives for users and internal teams
* Grow within the product and engineering tracks, with clear pathways to senior roles
Additional Details
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.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development
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