Engineering Team Lead

Summary

Join Xero's Platform Elements team as a Engineering Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract! Lead a team of eight engineers, fostering their growth and ensuring a smooth, sustainable delivery pipeline. You'll be responsible for accurate delivery systems, informed estimates, and capacity planning. Advocate for Xero's engineering standards and collaborate with a leadership group to maintain excellent engineering practices. This role requires experience managing software delivery teams using Lean-Agile techniques and a strong understanding of modern software delivery practices. Xero offers generous paid leave, wellbeing programs, medical insurance, parental leave, an employee share plan, flexible working, and career development opportunities.

Requirements

• Experience of managing software delivery and/or other teams using Lean-Agile techniques
• Excellent grasp of modern software delivery practices and life cycle
• Proven ability to balance the needs of the individual with the needs of the business
• Experience building high performing teams who are innovative, experimental and learn through failure
• A software or infrastructure background, and a basic understanding of modern CI/CD practices

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of around eight engineers, supporting their growth, engagement, and helping them reach their potential
• Ensure your team’s delivery pipeline is flowing at a predictable and sustainable pace, raising and addressing blockers as appropriate
• Ensure accurate, fit for purpose and sustainable delivery systems exist in your team. You'll be responsible for your team providing informed estimates, delivery forecasting, capacity planning, and associated reporting
• Understand and advocate the Xero engineering standards and practices. Working as part of a leadership group, you’ll facilitate an engineering approach that is compliant to these standards and fosters sustainably excellent engineering

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
• 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