Company Description

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.

Job Description

What's the opportunity?

An Engineering Manager owns the predictable, ongoing delivery and operation of a high quality product. They are the go-to person for all aspects of product delivery (e.g. engineering, testing, sequencing of work), both within and outside the team. They 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 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 Engineering Manager provides a positive example to the team regarding quality of work outputs, enthusiastic engagement with their work, 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.

Qualifications

What will you bring?

• The ability to get the most out of people, in the short and long term.
• The knowledge to drive technology improvements in evolving products.
• The drive to plan and deliver amazing products predictably.
• A sense of urgency for both you and the team - we're here to make an impact.

You'll have:

• A deep desire to make a difference.
• Tertiary qualifications in software engineering/computer science, or equivalent professional experience.
• A track record in leading the delivery of amazing products.
• Experience that includes line management of engineers and product delivery responsibility.

Additional Information

Why choose Smoothwall by Qoria:

In this role, you can expect:

• Employee stock options
• Enhanced holiday & family leave
• Tech Allowance
  .... and much more

More importantly, you’ll: 

• Deliver tech with purpose...

As an Engineering Manager, 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.

What's our technology stack?

The tech stack you’ll be using will depend on the team you’re working with.
But the range of technologies we use means there are always opportunities for further growth and development.

Our platform is predominantly cloud-based with services in Azure and GCP, and we have a rich tapestry of architectural components and processes including:

• RESTful backend services (.Net Core, Go)
• Client-side single page apps (Angular 10+, React)
• Fit-for-purpose filtering clients deployed across laptops, mobiles, and tablets (C++, Typescript, Swift)
• Infrastructure as code via ARM templates and Terraform
• Deployment and orchestration via Azure Appservice, GCP Cloudrun, Docker, Kubernetes
• Distributed version control via Git and build management via Azure devops and Git Actions

We’d love you to apply, even if you don’t have experience with our entire tech stack. We’re pro-learning, good engineering and coding paradigms, rather than specific tools.

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

Shortlisting will commence immediately.