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 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.

What’s the opportunity?

Do you want to lead the engineering effort that unifies a suite of products to protect millions of children online?

We are seeking a highly skilled Engineering Manager to take a hands-on leadership role in our Early Detection & Intervention business unit. You will lead two of the squads building our flagship product, Monitor, which helps keep children safe at school, at home, and everywhere in between.

In this role, you will lead two distinct engineering teams. The first team owns the customer-facing experience of Monitor, building the tools that empower safety leads to receive alerts, review incidents, and take action on safeguarding concerns. The second team is responsible for the client-side application that runs directly on children's devices.

Your Impact: What You'll Be Doing

Ensure Predictable, High-Quality Delivery: In collaboration with the Product team, you'll negotiate the balance between shipping new features, managing quality, and mitigating risk. Given the vital nature of our safeguarding tools, you will establish predictable delivery timelines without compromising on reliability.

Drive Technical and Architectural Strategy: Work in close partnership with Product Management to own the "how" of building and scaling Monitor. You'll make key architectural decisions to evolve our systems, ensuring seamless integration between the children's devices and the safety lead dashboards.

Build and Mentor High-Performing Teams: Cultivate healthy, engaged, and highly effective engineering squads. You will act as a trusted leader across your two teams, developing talent and fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.

What You Will Bring

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, leading teams in the design, delivery, and operation of complex, distributed systems.
• A strong architectural mindset, with the ability to influence technical decisions by leveraging your product and business acumen
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud-native technologies; experience with GCP and Golang is highly advantageous.
• A track record of mentoring and developing engineers, including fostering new leaders within your team and keeping high-performers engaged
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively with Product and influence stakeholders across the organization.
• An inquisitive, collaborative, and proactive nature, always looking for opportunities to improve teams, systems, and outcomes.
• A forward-thinking approach to engineering, with the ability to champion and integrate AI-driven tooling into the team's daily development lifecycle.

Technologies to expect

GCP, Go, React, Terraform, Github, Otel, DataDog, Postgres, BiqQuery, Firestore

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:

• Support tech with purpose...

As Technical Support at Qoria, your work truly matters. With every customer interaction, you’ll be helping children stay safe online. It feels good to do good.

• With people who care...

One of our values is ‘Care, Always’. Our Support Team lives and breathes that, every day. We also look after each other and help create a supportive environment for all.

• Through work that you love...

Being Technical support takes skill, energy and resilience. It can also be incredibly rewarding. Here, your efforts will be visible and you’ll love the impact you have.

• And a career that you own...

A proven career path forward, with real opportunities to progress your career into other teams and departments within the company. Exposure to industry leading tech, developed in-house by an amazing engineering team. Regular company wide lunch and learn sessions

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