Xero

Team Lead – Engineering

Xero

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Auckland • 🇳🇿 New Zealand

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationteam leadershipfeedbackgrowth mindsetemotional intelligence
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