Engineering Manager

2 weeks ago

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Xero Full time
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:

Platform Enablement is a cross-functional agile infrastructure development team.

The Platform team builds platform products to enable Xero development teams to build and ship software in a fast, reliable and secure manner.

Platform leverages modern cloud computing tooling and continuous integration practices. Through our customer centric approach we aim to reduce the cognitive load for Xero Product teams.


They embed with teams or engage through targeted projects to tackle complex, high-priority work which fast-tracks uplifting systems to follow best practices.

For example, migrating systems from manually-created EC2 instances to immutable containers running on Kubernetes, or implementing automated build/deploy pipelines in CI configured via code.


Our product engineering teams are their "internal customer" - so working effectively across a large group of people as a team is a key to success.

They operate Delivery & Support services centered on uplifting non-functional aspects of software, through enabling and helping engineers to continuously improve their systems.

They take pride in measurement, and extend this to capturing feedback from our customers to learn and improve on the services we deliver to them.


What you'll do:

  • You'll engage, understand, collaborate, and communicate effectively with peers and teams across Xero to drive continuous improvement towards Xero's sustainably excellent engineering vision.
  • You'll help lead your team to successfully identify, scope, manage, and complete work which delivers measurable improvements to production systems in a timely manner.
  • Be a key member of the engineering leadership team where you will drive performance, culture, an inspiring environment an continuous improvement of team rituals and processes
  • Manage stakeholder expectations and build relationships
  • Promote a culture of measurement, datadriven decisions, hypothesisdriven development, and continuous improvement.
  • People Management across different geolocations
  • Attract, recruit, and retain capable people, building on and complementing the diversity of our teams.
  • Provide technical coaching, mentoring, and training to people and teams with the tools and practices we use, to empower them to execute successfully and with autonomy
  • Create a culture for your teams that is fun, rewarding, innovative, and resultsdriven. Manage and provide feedback to your team, to support high performance and personal and professional development.

What you bring:

  • Extensive people management experience.
  • Experience leading lean software engineering teams which own their software in production, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, SLOs, and oncall/incident management.
  • Proven experience building and running secure, highlyavailable production software and infrastructure in AWS (or comparable cloud platform).
  • Strong working knowledge of multiple programming languages, operating systems, and networking protocols.
  • Ability to build, lead, mentor, and develop an engineering team.
  • A passion for measurement, datadriven decision making, hypothesisdriven development, and developer experience.
  • Excellent communication and networking skills ability to work with a wide variety of people.
  • Ability to take initiative combined with commitment to continuous improvement and quality.


Xero is an inclusive environment, with people who will respect, challenge, support and mentor you to do the best work of your life.

Where creativity, innovation and continuous learning are encouraged and celebrated.

Whether you're after a workplace with a social vibe or a workplace which understands your family, sport or a side gig is the priority or something in between - Xero can be all of that and more.


At Xero, we trust you to build your career to the best of your ability and we will support your desire for learning with training and career mentorship to help you flourish.

As part of our awesome package, you'll receive Xero shares and a Life Insurance package as well as a variety of other perks to make your time here that much more fun.

Our facilities and PX teams work hard to give us great workspaces with all the tech company perks, so join us and experience our new Auckland offices

Why Xero

  • Offering very generous paid leave to use however you'd like (plus statutor

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