The Engineering Manager leads software development teams, focuses on team growth, delivery management, process improvements, and cross-functional collaboration to maintain high-quality software delivery.
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
At Xero, we believe in empowering our leaders, and as an Engineering Manager, you'll be at the heart of this! This is your chance to step into a role where your focus is on developing and guiding other engineering leaders. You'll be instrumental in shaping the future of our software, ensuring we consistently deliver innovative features that directly contribute to our purpose of building a stronger global economy.
This is a rare opportunity to move beyond managing a team to truly mentoring the next generation of technical leaders, all while making a tangible impact on the lives of small business owners worldwide.
We have a few opportunities available - We're looking for candidates based in Australia - to work either remote or in one of our offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane!
As an Engineering Manager you’ll be responsible for building global engineering teams by:
- Attracting, recruiting and retaining capable individuals, building on and complementing the diversity of our teams.
- Championing and driving processes and practices that make it possible for engineers to get great work done, while promoting a safe environment for people to experiment and learn.
- Role-modeling exemplary leadership, supporting and growing the next generation of engineering leaders at Xero.
What you’ll do:
- We make it beautiful: Support, develop and deliver by actively measuring, monitoring, and continuously improving the performance and reliability of applications you are responsible for.
- We make it happen: Delivery Management / Planning and Execution: Expertise in planning, executing, and monitoring projects, often using Agile or other methodologies to ensure timely delivery.
- We make it human: Collaborate as a leader of leaders (Engineering Leadership), you will be a coach and advisor to your direct reports and act as an escalation point for them to continuously align your team with Xero’s objectives and deliverables. Collaborate and coach your team to align to Xero Engineering Standards eg: compliance and security requirements in the Path to Production Standard, front-end development requirements in the Web Application Standard.
- We make it together: Strong ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and advocate for the engineering team's needs. This includes Cross-Functional Collaboration in working with product management, design, and other departments to ensure cohesive project alignment.
About you:
- Demonstrate knowledge, skills and expertise managing software development teams and proven track record at building and maintaining good team culture with a deep understanding of the relevant technologies, tools, and processes in their domain (e.g., software development, systems engineering).
- Share expertise and experience to connect and support the growth of a culture of continuous empathy towards our customers among your team with the ability to make architectural decisions and understand complex systems to guide teams effectively.
- Attributes and motivations to grow the talent in the team by identifying skill gaps and ensuring there is a clear strategy to close those gaps (which might include upskilling, reassigning or hiring team members).
- Coach the team on Agile software engineering practices, ensuring your team's technical practices are continuously improved to deliver high-quality software that is secure, robust and scalable.
- Lead Engineering teams are unblocked, supported, and accelerated in their adoption of DevSecOps tools and practices, through pairing, mentoring, coaching, and collaboration. This includes familiarity with coding and development practices, enabling better collaboration with engineers and troubleshooting.
- Demonstrated ability to implement and manage experimentation frameworks, including A/B testing and iterative development.
- Analyze results from experiments to make data-driven decisions and refine our engineering strategies.
- Mentor team members, encouraging them to explore new technologies and methodologies in their work.
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.
We offer 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 8
.Net Framework 4.8
C#
DynamoDB
Kubernetes
React
S3
SQL Server
Xero Hawthorn West, Victoria, AUS Office
Xero Melbourne (HQ) Office
Xero’s head office in Australia is in the buzzing suburb of Hawthorn, a stone’s throw from the CBD. Here, a diverse mix of Xeros work in both global and regional teams.
Similar Jobs at Xero
Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software
The Principal Engineer at Xero leads multi-team engineering strategies, influences technical direction, fosters team culture, and collaborates closely with stakeholders.
Top Skills:
AWSGCP
Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software
The Principal Engineer in the Accounting Domain will design systems for scalability and performance, lead technical projects, mentor engineers, and drive engineering best practices.
Top Skills:
Cloud-Native PlatformsProgramming LanguagesSoftware EngineeringSystem Architecture
Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software
The Paid Social Specialist will manage paid social campaigns, optimize performance, implement tracking tools, analyze metrics, and collaborate across teams to drive ROI.
Top Skills:
Google AdsLinkedInMetaSQLTiktok
What you need to know about the Melbourne Tech Scene
Home to 650 biotech companies, 10 major research institutes and nine universities, Melbourne is among one of the top cities for biotech. In fact, some of the greatest medical advancements were conceptualized and developed here, including Symex Lab's "lab-on-a-chip" solution that monitors hormones to predict ovulation for conception, and Denteric's vaccine for periodontal gum disease. Yet, the thousands of people working in the city's healthtech sector are just getting started, to say nothing of the tech advancements across all other sectors.
