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.
Xero’s Identity & Auth Team looks after the Identity, Authentication and Authorisation experiences at Xero, ensuring that our customers can access Xero safely and securely. We support both external customer experiences (login and multi-factor authentication pages), and internal engineering customers (authentication and authorisation platforms).
We are looking for a Team Lead - Engineering to join our team. As a Team Lead, you will lead two pods of talented developers. Working together with the Product Manager and Lead Engineers, you will set the direction of the pods, forming and executing on a delivery plan. You will promote successful outcomes for the pods, through supporting your direct reports in becoming awesome Xeros, fostering a culture of teamwork, as well as promoting excellent engineering and delivery practices.
This is a role with a high potential for impact, working on a platform of large scale and throughput, that our millions of customers use every day. To be successful in this role, we expect you to be able to understand the technical decisions the team is making, to ask the right questions and to challenge the team to arrive at the right approach.
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.