Senior Engineering Manager

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, 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, under the ‘Smoothwall’ brand in the UK, and under the ‘Qoria’ brand in EMEA. Our solutions are utilized by schools, school districts and their parental communities to protect children from seeing harmful content online, to identify children at risk based on their digital behaviors and to ensure teachers maintain focus and safe learning in the digital classroom. 27k schools and 6 million parents depend on our solutions to keep 22 million children safe in 180 countries around the world.

What’s the opportunity?

A Senior Engineering Manager owns the predictable, ongoing, delivery and operation of a high quality product. You are the go-to person for all aspects of product delivery (e.g. engineering, testing, sequencing of work), both within and outside the team. You will work in close conjunction with a Product Manager, and together ensure that their product fits customer and business needs. Where the Product Manager focuses on the question “What is the right thing to build?”, the Senior Engineering Manager's focus is “How will we build it right?”

Here’s how you’ll do it ?

Team health: supported by their management and HR, they prepare team members for career progression, ensure a healthy balance of learning and doing, and ensure the processes within the team support excellence in delivery. They typically manage a single squad, or a small number of squads that have a tightly related purpose.

System fitness: in consultation with other experienced engineers, they drive and refine the product architecture in response to new requirements, emerging risks, and changing company priorities. The team, business and user have their needs met.

Predictable delivery: in collaboration with the Product Manager (and especially during Discovery) they negotiate the ongoing balance between quality, risk, and value to establish a predictable timeline. They then track and adapt to changes in the delivery plan, using early warning signals to respond to issues as early as possible.

Setting the standard: the Senior Engineering Manager provides a positive example to the team regarding quality of work outputs, enthusiastic engagement, meeting commitments, a commitment to continual improvement, and data-driven decision making. They are on the tools enough to provide this example in practice, while maintaining a clear understanding of the system as a whole.