Team Lead - Engineering (Payroll)

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.

We're looking for an Engineering Team Lead with people leadership and a software development/technical background. This role will be based in one of our AU offices (hybrid) in either Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or Canberra.

The Payroll division’s purpose is to make it easier for small business owners and their advisors to pay and manage their people. We take the complexity out of Payroll for employers to save them time and ensure that their employees are paid correctly.

We are looking for a Team Lead - Engineering to join us and lead two pods of talented engineers. Working together with Lead Engineers, Product Managers and Designers, you will be responsible for engineering performance and delivery, building high performing teams who build and maintain it right whilst delivering efficiently. You will achieve this by growing your people into awesome Xeros, fostering a culture of teamwork and promoting excellent engineering and delivery practices. 

This is a high impact role leading two pods working in the heart of the Payroll product on critical customer jobs. To be successful in this role, you must be able to understand the technical decisions the team is making, to ask the right questions and to challenge the team to arrive at the right outcomes.

What you'll do:

• Drive a culture of engagement and improvement, ensuring the team understands how their work helps our customers and our business achieve great outcomes
• Build and maintain a strong relationship with Product, Design and other key stakeholders in the division/organisation
• Drive efficient, predictable delivery - fostering a culture of quality and trust
• Help resolve roadblocks that the team faces
• Ensure your team adheres to Xero engineering practices and builds software to a high standard
• Meet regularly with your direct reports 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
• As needed, review and manage performance, remuneration and facilitate any remedial actions.

Your teams will be working on the following stack:

• .NET (C#)
• AWS
• Docker & Kubernetes
• React and other front-end technologies
• SQL Server
• Industry leading CI/CD, 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, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, 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.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. Our goal is to make sure you feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life. 

At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.