Team Lead - Engineering

At Xero, we’re here to make running a business beautiful. By making small businesses more efficient every day, connecting them with big business technology and empowering a community behind them, their potential is limitless. When that happens, we’re not only helping small businesses, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

You will be joining our Tickstar team. The Tickstar team is responsible for providing e-invoicing infrastructure and services to customers around the world. E-invoicing is one of the next big innovations that will help small businesses and advisors streamline their accounting work and get paid faster. E-invoicing provides significant efficiencies — reducing administration time, invoicing errors, and the risk of invoice fraud.

What you'll do

• Support each member of your team to identify, grow and develop engineering capabilities and overall personal development and work with them to understand career growth opportunities.
• 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.
• Ensure the health of all the teamʼs products is well understood by the team, discoverable by the wider organization, and able to be addressed, should problems occur.
• Understand and advocate the Xero Engineering Standards. Working as part of a leadership group, you’ll facilitate an engineering approach that is compliant to these standards and fosters sustainably excellent engineering.
• Working with your peers in Product and your team, assist in the development roadmaps and plans which effectively and efficiently deliver business outcomes.
• Maintain a current knowledge of engineering technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications. Stay up-to-date with emerging engineering practices, techniques and frameworks.

What you'll bring with you

• 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 with coaching and mentoring.
• Previously worked in a digital product or SaaS environment.
• Extensive experience developing infrastructure applications.
• Experience with our tech stack Java, AWS, SQL Server.