Engineering Team Lead

Summary

Join Xero's AI Product Engineering team and lead a group of engineers, ensuring the successful delivery of key AI initiatives. Champion excellent engineering and delivery practices for rapid, high-quality software development. Support direct reports in their professional growth and foster a world-class engineering culture. Maintain a productive and sustainable work environment for your team, monitoring operational health and product resilience. Collaborate with Product and Design teams to develop effective roadmaps and plans.

Requirements

• In depth experience of managing software delivery and engineering teams using Lean-Agile techniques
• Excellent grasp of modern software delivery practices and software development life cycle
• Strong execution skills, consistently driving initiatives to successful completion
• Comfort with ambiguity and can effectively lead and guide your team in dynamic and evolving environments
• Proven experience in coaching and mentoring engineering teams
• No prior experience in working with AI product delivery is required, but you must have a strong interest in building AI products

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and grow a high performing team through effective hiring, coaching, mentoring, and by setting a clear direction that aligns their work with Xero’s Technology and strategic objectives
• Driving continuous improvement through proactive reviewing, developing and implementing best practice ways of working
• Ensure your team’s delivery pipeline is flowing at a predictable and sustainable pace, proactively identifying and addressing blockers to maintain momentum
• Establish and maintain accurate, fit for purpose and sustainable delivery systems within 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, Design and your engineering team, contribute to the development of clear roadmaps and plans which effectively and efficiently deliver business outcomes
• Maintain a current and comprehensive knowledge of engineering technologies relevant to Xero’s software applications. Stay up-to-date with emerging engineering practices, techniques and frameworks

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
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• 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