Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Xero and lead a high-performing team of engineers, contributing directly to the team's success by supporting excellent engineering and delivery practices. You will support your direct reports in their professional growth, fostering a world-class engineering culture and ensuring a productive work environment. Responsibilities include driving continuous improvement, maintaining a predictable delivery pipeline, ensuring sustainable delivery systems, collaborating on roadmaps, and staying current with engineering technologies. The ideal candidate possesses experience managing software delivery teams using Lean-Agile techniques, a strong grasp of modern software delivery practices, and proven coaching and mentoring skills. Xero offers generous paid leave, wellbeing benefits, private medical insurance, gym passes, parental leave, an employee share plan, flexible working, and more.

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 with coaching and mentoring
• Previously worked in a digital product or SaaS environment

Responsibilities

• As required, lead, develop and grow a high performing team through coaching, mentoring and setting a clear direction by connecting the work they do to the Technology and Xero’s strategic objectives
• Driving continuous improvement through reviewing, developing and implementing best practice ways of working
• 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
• Working with your peers in Product and your team, assist in the development roadmaps and plans which effectively and efficiently deliver business outcomes
• Maintain a current knowledge of engineering technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications. Stay up-to-date with emerging engineering practices, techniques and frameworks

Benefits

• Offering 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
• Private medical insurance
• Gym passes
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Flexible working