Senior Engineering Manager

Qoria Limited; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job 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.

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.

What does good look like?

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in engineering management
• Demonstrated success in leading and managing engineering teams
• Strong technical background in software development
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget
• Ability to develop and implement engineering strategies
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, and training engineering talent
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
• Experience working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

Growth within & beyond the role:

As a Senior Engineering Manager gains experience, they will typically be given ownership of progressively more complicated products. That complexity might come from the size or number of the team(s), the number of dependencies associated with the product, the technical complexity of the product, or the number of stakeholders that need to be satisfied.

Why choose Smoothwall by Qoria:

In this role, you can expect:

• Employee Share Scheme
• Zone Out Days
• Tech Allowance
• .... and much more

More importantly, you’ll:

• Deliver tech with purpose...

As a Senior Engineering Manager 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 Senior Engineering Managers 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 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.

Shortlisting will commence immediately. You will need to have the right to work in the UK, we are unable to sponsor.