Team Lead - Engineering

Summary

Join Xero's Direct Growth team as a Team Lead and inspire engineering excellence! Drive high-performing teams to deliver exceptional software with speed and quality, empowering engineers to excel in a sustainable and productive environment. Champion engineering excellence, foster individual growth, and ensure the team consistently delivers valuable, resilient solutions. Lead your team in identifying, scoping, managing, and completing high-quality work, improving production systems. Build cross-team relationships, foster team growth through feedback and coaching, and analyze system health. Support engineers during incidents and maintain current knowledge of Xero's technologies. Collaborate effectively with peers across Xero to drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

• You’ll be a seasoned Team Lead, bringing substantial experience in guiding software delivery and engineering teams through Lean and/or Agile methodologies
• Your deep understanding of modern software delivery practices and the entire software development lifecycle is evident in your track record of successful team leadership
• You’ll have a proven track record as coach and mentor, adept at leveraging your extensive software delivery, technical experience, and expertise to provide impactful guidance. Enabling you to deliver the right knowledge at the right time and in the most effective way
• You'll possess high EQ and a true growth mindset; understanding that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. You'll be self aware, self regulated, motivated and empathetic, with great interpersonal skills
• You'll 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

• Lead and Inspire Engineering Excellence! Drive high-performing engineering teams to deliver exceptional software with speed and quality
• As a Team Lead , you'll empower your engineers within Direct Growth teams to excel, cultivate a world-class culture, and ensure a sustainable, productive environment where they can do their best work
• You'll champion engineering excellence, foster individual growth, and ensure the team consistently delivers valuable, resilient solutions that delight our customers
• Engage, understand, collaborate, and communicate effectively with peers and teams across Xero to drive continuous improvement towards Xero’s sustainably excellent engineering vision
• Lead your team of engineers to successfully identify, scope, manage, and complete high quality work which delivers measurable improvements to production systems in a timely manner
• Build cross-team relationships for win-win outcomes
• Foster team growth through feedback, coaching, and opportunities for advancement
• Analyse system health and make regular system health reviews
• Support engineers during incidents and facilitate post incident reviews
• Maintain current knowledge of technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications
• Build cross-team relationships and manage stakeholder expectations

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
• And 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