Team Lead - Engineering

Summary

Join Xero as a passionate Team Lead - Engineering to build and mentor a talented team focused on creating insightful analytics for our customers. You will be responsible for hiring, supporting, and coaching your team to deliver high-quality software. This role involves fostering a positive work environment, ensuring efficient workflows, and driving engineering initiatives. You will collaborate with global teams, promoting innovation and shared success. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in managing software delivery teams using Agile methodologies, strong coaching and mentoring skills, and a deep understanding of Xero's engineering standards. Xero offers a comprehensive benefits package including generous paid leave, health insurance, life insurance, parental leave, and flexible working arrangements.

Requirements

• Possess previous experience of managing software delivery and engineering teams using Lean and/or Agile techniques
• Have an excellent grasp of modern software delivery practices and life cycle
• Be a seasoned coach & mentor; utilizing software delivery, technical experience and expertise, offer the right knowledge, at the right time in the right way - understanding why and how people learn
• Possess high EQ and a true growth mindset; understanding that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. Be self aware, self regulated, motivated and empathetic, with great interpersonal skills
• Have a strong understanding of the importance of Xero's Engineering standards and practices and are able to coach teams to adhere to them

Responsibilities

• Hire talented engineers who share our values and set them up for success from day one
• Maintain a working environment in which your team can do their best work predictably and sustainably, and with a sense of purpose
• Make sure the team has all the information they need and the right feedback loops in place to discover and deliver valuable, usable, and buildable outcomes
• Monitor and look to support the operational health of your team and products, aiming for resilience
• Support your team to hone their engineering skills and grow as individuals in order to meet the capabilities required for the team
• Focus on driving engineering initiatives and ensuring the team makes progress towards their goals

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
• 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