Team Lead - Engineering (Syft Integration)

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.

About the team:

This specific position will ensure a smooth integration of our recent acquisition of Syft Analytics to accelerate our mission to provide powerful insights. Syft Analytics is the leading global cloud-based reporting, insights, and analytics platform for small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers.

For more information, please check out this post from our CEO, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy! 

About the role:

We’re looking for a passionate Team Lead - Engineering to build a talented team and create beautiful analytics that help our customers make smarter decisions.

In this role, you’ll be supporting, coaching, and empowering your team to deliver high-quality software that makes data come to life. You’ll play a key role in crafting beautiful, insightful analytics that drive smarter decisions for our customers.

You also get to collaborate closely with our talented team in South Africa and other global teams, creating opportunities for innovation, and shared success. 

What you'll do:

• You’ll hire talented engineers who share our values and set them up for success from day one. 
• You’ll maintain a working environment in which your team can do their best work predictably and sustainably, and with a sense of purpose.
• You’ll make sure the team has all the information they need and the right feedback loops in place to discover and deliver valuable, usable, and buildable outcomes.
• You’ll monitor and look to support the operational health of your team and products, aiming for resilience. 
• You will support your team to hone their engineering skills and grow as individuals in order to meet the capabilities required for the team.
• Your focus will be on driving engineering initiatives and ensuring the team makes progress towards their goals. 

What you'll bring:

• You'll come with previous experience of managing software delivery and engineering teams using Lean and/or Agile techniques. Complemented by an excellent grasp of modern software delivery practices and life cycle. 
• You'll be a seasoned coach & mentor; utilizing software delivery, technical experience and expertise, offer the right knowledge, at the right time in the right way - understanding why and how people learn. 
• You'll possess high EQ and a true growth mindset; understanding that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. You'll be self aware, self regulated, motivated and empathetic, with great interpersonal skills. 
• You'll have a strong understanding of the importance of Xero's Engineering standards and practices and are able to coach teams to adhere to them. 

Please note:

We will be observing a holiday shutdown period, during which there may be delays in our recruitment process, including responses and updates. We’ll resume full operations in the week commencing 13th January. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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.