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
Requirements
You’ll be a seasoned Team Lead, bringing substantial experience in guiding software delivery and engineering teams through Lean and/or Agile methodologies.
You'll have a technical/software engineering background
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.
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 have a strong understanding of the importance of Xero's Engineering standards and practices and are able to coach teams to adhere to them.
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
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
Employee Share Plan
Beautiful offices
Flexible working
Career development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software deliverysoftware engineeringLean methodologyAgile methodologysystem health analysissoftware development lifecyclecoachingmentoring