Engineering Team Lead

2 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Xero Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Our Purpose

At Xero, we're here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we're not only making life better for small business, we'll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

Our Mission is to accelerate product teams by removing friction in their development process so that customer value can be delivered with speed, safety and efficiencyOur Vision is to create golden paths for the greatest engineering challenges at Xero.

EngineeringX is all about improving the inner development loop for all engineers by providing compelling golden paths that simplify the most complex problems at Xero.

As a team lead, you will be managing a group of engineers as they build tooling and engage with other teams to deliver on this promise, enabling rapid delivery of high quality software. You will be responsible for supporting your direct reports in becoming awesome Xeros, empowering them to deliver high-quality software to customers and fostering the growth of a world-class engineering culture.

What you'll do
    • Leading a team of engineers, supporting their growth, engagement, and helping them reach their potential
  • Ensure your team's delivery pipeline is flowing at a predictable and sustainable pace, raising and addressing blockers as appropriate
  • Ensure accurate, fit for purpose and sustainable delivery systems exist in your team. You'll be responsible for your team providing informed estimates, delivery forecasting, capacity planning, and associated reporting
  • Understand and advocate the Xero engineering standards and practices. Working as part of a leadership group, you'll facilitate an engineering approach that is compliant to these standards and fosters sustainably excellent engineering
We are looking for someone who has
    • Experience of managing software delivery and/or other teams using Lean-Agile techniques
  • Excellent grasp of modern software delivery practices and life cycle
  • Proven ability to balance the needs of the individual with the needs of the business
  • Experience building high performing teams who are innovative, experimental and learn through failure
  • A software or infrastructure background, and a basic understanding of modern CI/CD practices

Why Xero?

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.

We offer 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, and many other benefits that reflect our human value.

You'll do the best work of your life at Xero



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