Team Lead - Engineering

Summary

Join Xero and lead a team of engineers in delivering high-quality software. Foster a healthy work environment, ensure clear communication, and empower your team's growth. Drive engineering excellence, support team performance, and individual development. Responsibilities include effective delivery, ensuring product health and quality, collaborating on roadmaps, coaching team members, leading and developing a high-performing team, supporting career growth and wellbeing, fostering a culture of psychological safety, recruiting diverse talent, and organizing team-building activities. You will need strong coaching and mentoring skills, high emotional intelligence, proven ability to foster inclusive team culture, solid understanding of engineering standards, experience leading teams in Agile environments, and strong collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills. Xero offers generous paid leave, paid leave for wellbeing, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, paid parental leave, an Employee Share Plan, flexible working, and other benefits.

Requirements

• Strong coaching and mentoring skills, with a focus on growth and learning
• High emotional intelligence, clear communication, and people leadership
• Proven ability to foster inclusive, values-driven team culture
• Solid understanding of engineering standards and modern software delivery practices
• Experience leading teams in Agile environments, ideally within digital product or SaaS
• Strong collaboration, time management, and stakeholder engagement skills

Responsibilities

• Drive effective, sustainable delivery with strong planning and technical practices
• Ensure product health, technical quality, and adherence to engineering standards
• Collaborate on roadmaps and support incident resolution and continuous improvement
• Coach the team to grow their skills and deliver high-quality outcomes
• Lead and develop a high-performing, inclusive team
• Support career growth, wellbeing, and team engagement
• Foster a culture of psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Recruit and retain diverse talent, and organise team-building activities

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
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working