Team Lead- Engineering

Posted 2 Days Ago
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Stockholm
Hybrid
1-3 Years Experience
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
The Team Lead - Engineering will manage the Tickstar team, responsible for providing e-invoicing infrastructure and services. This role involves supporting team development, ensuring sustainable delivery pipelines, maintaining product health, and advocating for Xero Engineering Standards while collaborating on development roadmaps.
Summary Generated by Built In

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, PostgresSQL

Top Skills

Java

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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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