Technical Leadership Role

6 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Xero Full time
About Xero

Xero is a leading cloud-based accounting software provider that empowers small businesses to succeed. Our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.

We support our people to do the best work of their lives so they can help small businesses thrive through better tools, information, and connections. When our customers succeed, they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a better place.

Xero's Identity & Auth Team ensures that our customers can access Xero safely and securely. We support both external customer experiences (login and multi-factor authentication pages) and internal engineering customers (authentication and authorisation platforms).

Job Description

We're looking for an experienced Technical Leader to join our team as a Team Lead - Engineering. As a Team Lead, you'll lead two pods of talented developers, working together with the Product Manager and Lead Engineers to set the direction of the pods, formulating and executing on a delivery plan.

You will promote successful outcomes for the pods, supporting your direct reports in becoming high-performing engineers, fostering a culture of teamwork, and promoting excellent engineering and delivery practices.

This is a role with significant impact, working on a platform used by millions of customers every day. To be successful in this role, you'll need to understand technical decisions, ask the right questions, and challenge the team to arrive at the right approach.

Key Responsibilities
  • Ensure your team has the necessary tools and support to be successful.
  • Meet regularly with each member of your team, encouraging them to become the highest-performing version of themselves through performance feedback, career development, coaching, and mentoring.
  • Be influential in delivery, fostering a culture of quality and trust.
  • Ensure software is built to a high standard.
  • Help resolve roadblocks faced by the team.
  • Look to continually improve and iterate on agile processes and practices within the team.
About the Stack

You'll have the opportunity to work on a microservice written in C# on .NET, using AWS services, running in a Docker container orchestrated by Kubernetes, accessed by a Single-Page Application (SPA) written in React with TypeScript, deployed with an automated CI/CD pipeline, and monitored by industry-leading tools.

Why Xero?

Xero offers a generous package including paid leave, dedicated parental leave, health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing programs, employee resource groups, flexible working, career development opportunities, and many other benefits that reflect our human values.

We believe that our employees should have the freedom to live their lives fully and pursue their passions. That's why we offer competitive salaries, ranging from $150,000 to $180,000 per year, depending on experience.



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