Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Xero as an Engineering Manager to lead, grow, and manage engineering team leaders. You will build global engineering teams by attracting, recruiting, and retaining talented individuals, championing processes for efficient work, and role-modeling exemplary leadership. Responsibilities include supporting application performance and reliability, managing project delivery using Agile methodologies, collaborating with other leaders, and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. You will coach your team on Agile practices, ensure high-quality software delivery, and lead the adoption of DevSecOps tools. You'll also analyze experimental results to make data-driven decisions and mentor team members to explore new technologies.

Requirements

• Demonstrate knowledge, skills and expertise managing software development teams and proven track record at building and maintaining good team culture with a deep understanding of the relevant technologies, tools, and processes in their domain (e.g., software development, systems engineering)
• Share expertise and experience to connect and support the growth of a culture of continuous empathy towards our customers among your team with the ability to make architectural decisions and understand complex systems to guide teams effectively
• Attributes and motivations to grow the talent in the team by identifying skill gaps and ensuring there is a clear strategy to close those gaps (which might include upskilling, reassigning or hiring team members)
• Coach the team on Agile software engineering practices, ensuring your team's technical practices are continuously improved to deliver high-quality software that is secure, robust and scalable
• Lead Engineering teams are unblocked, supported, and accelerated in their adoption of DevSecOps tools and practices, through pairing, mentoring, coaching, and collaboration
• This includes familiarity with coding and development practices, enabling better collaboration with engineers and troubleshooting
• Demonstrated ability to implement and manage experimentation frameworks, including A/B testing and iterative development
• Analyze results from experiments to make data-driven decisions and refine our engineering strategies
• Mentor team members, encouraging them to explore new technologies and methodologies in their work

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow and manage leaders of engineering teams to operate and consistently deliver software for new or improved features in Xero’s products and its associated service delivery systems
• Attracting, recruiting and retaining capable individuals, building on and complementing the diversity of our teams
• Championing and driving processes and practices that make it possible for engineers to get great work done, while promoting a safe environment for people to experiment and learn
• Role-modeling exemplary leadership, supporting and growing the next generation of engineering leaders at Xero
• Support, develop and deliver by actively measuring, monitoring, and continuously improving the performance and reliability of applications you are responsible for
• Delivery Management / Planning and Execution: Expertise in planning, executing, and monitoring projects, often using Agile or other methodologies to ensure timely delivery
• Collaborate as a leader of leaders (Engineering Leadership), you will be a coach and advisor to your direct reports and act as an escalation point for them to continuously align your team with Xero’s objectives and deliverables
• Collaborate and coach your team to align to Xero Engineering Standards eg: compliance and security requirements in the Path to Production Standard, front-end development requirements in the Web Application Standard
• Strong ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and advocate for the engineering team's needs
• Cross-Functional Collaboration in working with product management, design, and other departments to ensure cohesive project alignment

Benefits

• Very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Free medical insurance
• Wellbeing and sports programmes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working
• Career development