Engineering Team Lead - Ecosystem

Posted 6 Hours Ago
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Wellington
Hybrid
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software
Xero’s online accounting software connects small business owners with their numbers, their bank, and advisors anytime.
The Role
As the Engineering Team Lead, you will manage and mentor a team of engineers, ensuring they have the necessary tools for success and promoting effective agile practices. You will oversee the development of high-quality software using a microservice architecture and facilitate continuous improvement within the team.
Summary Generated by Built In

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 


At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.


This is a 12 month Fixed-term-contract


Ecosystem is about relationships with partners.

The partners use Xero APIs and build applications that users can connect using the Xero App Store and pay for the apps using Ecosystem Billing. The development portal provides partners with API documentation and allows them to manage their applications and billing.


We are looking for a Team Lead - Engineering to join our team. As a Team Lead, you will lead a pod of talented engineers. Working together with the Product Manager and Lead Engineers, you will set the direction of the pods, forming and executing on a delivery plan. You will promote successful outcomes for the pods, through supporting your direct reports in becoming awesome Xeros, fostering a culture of teamwork, as well as promoting excellent engineering and delivery practices. 

What you’ll do

  • Ensure your team has all of the right tools and support they need to be successful
  • Meet regularly with each member of your team and encourage them to become the highest performing version of themselves they can be, using a variety of techniques which may include 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 that the team faces
  • Look to continually improve and iterate on the agile process and practices within the team

You'll have the opportunity to work on the below stack

  • A microservice, written in C# on .NET
  • AWS services
  • Running in a Docker container, orchestrated by Kubernetes
  • Accessed by SPA written in React with TypeScript
  • Deployed with an automated CI/CD pipeline
  • Monitored by industry leading monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging tools

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, free medical insurance, 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.

Top Skills

.Net
AWS
C#
Docker
Kubernetes
React
Typescript

What the Team is Saying

Rose
Sophia
The Company
HQ: Wellington
4,700 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Xero is a global small business platform with 3.95 million subscribers which includes a core accounting solution, payroll, workforce management, expenses and projects. Xero also has an extensive ecosystem of connected apps and connections to banks and other financial institutions helping small businesses access a range of solutions from within Xero’s open platform to help them run their business and manage their finances.

Why Work With Us

Xero is not like most companies. When you join Xero, you become part of something beautiful —a global community of people who are passionate about making an impact on the world. It’s a place where you can truly be yourself and find success in a way that’s meaningful to you.

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