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Team Lead – Engineering
| Company | Xero |
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| Location | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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| Salary | $173000 – $190000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 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.
- Domain experience in FinTech highly desired.
- Experience developing SDKs with UI data layers or BFF capabilities to orchestrate internal APIs and data.
Responsibilities
- Managing a group of engineers while directly contributing to the successful outcomes of the team by supporting excellent engineering and delivery practices.
- Maintaining a working environment in which the team can do their best work predictably and sustainably.
- Ensuring the team’s delivery pipeline is flowing at a predictable and sustainable pace, raising and addressing blockers as appropriate.
- Ensuring accurate, fit for purpose and sustainable delivery systems exist in the team.
- Understanding and advocating the Xero Engineering Standards and facilitating an engineering approach that is compliant to these standards.
- Assisting in the development roadmaps and plans which effectively and efficiently deliver business outcomes.
- Maintaining a current knowledge of engineering technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications.
- Coaching and enabling the team toward effective and efficient delivery.
Preferred Qualifications
- Have a good understanding of the importance of Xero’s Engineering standards and practices and are able to coach teams to adhere to them.
