Engineering Team Lead

Summary

Join Xero's Ecosystem team as an Engineering Team Lead and nurture a high-performing team, focusing on their growth and delivery. You will foster a positive and inclusive environment, partnering with Product Managers and Lead Engineers. Responsibilities include coaching and mentoring engineers, driving impactful delivery, hiring and onboarding, and championing effective practices. The ideal candidate possesses strong people leadership skills, a delivery mindset, and a commitment to building autonomous teams. Technical capabilities are also required to guide the team through complex challenges. Xero offers generous paid leave, wellbeing programs, medical insurance, parental leave, an Employee Share Plan, flexible working, and career development opportunities.

Requirements

• A passion for people leadership, with a focus on successfully mentoring, coaching, and growing engineers
• A strong delivery mindset. You have a knack for pragmatic planning, a drive to get things done, and excel at creating an environment of ownership and accountability
• A commitment to building autonomous teams. You foster a culture of deep ownership and trust, empowering your team to take initiative and eventually operate without you as a critical dependency
• A commitment to creating a high-trust environment through transparency. You are skilled at having candid, constructive conversations about performance and failure, always with the goal of helping the team and individuals grow
• A genuine belief that a happy team is a high-performing team. You care about your people's wellbeing and are motivated by seeing them proud of what they deliver
• A drive for continuous improvement. You're always looking for ways to make the team better, whether it's through improving processes or championing new technologies like AI-powered coding
• High emotional intelligence (EQ). You are self-aware, empathetic, and skilled at building strong, trusting relationships
• A deep understanding of agile and lean delivery. You know how to create a high-performing, sustainable team environment and effectively apply concepts like MVP
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills. You encourage healthy debate, can navigate difficult conversations, and align people towards a common goal
• Strong technical capabilities as a hands-on engineer. You have the ability to contribute to code, design, and architecture, allowing you to effectively guide your team through their most complex challenges

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop your team: Nurture a team of talented engineers through regular coaching, mentoring, career development conversations, and performance feedback
• Foster a healthy culture: Cultivate a positive, inclusive, and collaborative team environment where psychological safety and a culture of feedback are paramount
• Drive impactful delivery: Partner with the Product Manager to create clear, realistic plans that focus on shipping value. You'll ensure the team delivers on its commitments with both speed and quality
• Grow the team: Be responsible for hiring and onboarding new engineers, ensuring they are set up for success from day one
• Champion effective practices: Guide the team in agile and lean principles, helping them to continuously improve their ways of working and deliver value efficiently
• Represent your team: Act as the voice of your team, ensuring their successes are celebrated and their challenges are understood by the wider organisation

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
• 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
• And many other benefits that reflect our human value