Engineering Manager

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.

Data Platforms Engineering @ Xero

The Data team at Xero plays a pivotal role in fostering a culture of collaborative, data-driven decision-making, impacting not only our internal teams but also our diverse, global community of small business owners, bookkeepers, and accountants. Our work involves crafting, overseeing, and delivering a broad spectrum of data services. These range from essential reporting and key data sets to advanced, scalable solutions in analytical data processing, storage, machine learning, and API-driven predictive services.

In this role, you will be more than just a technical expert; you'll be a valued leader within our collaborative engineering team. Your contributions will be key in developing new data capabilities and services, and in enhancing our existing solutions and practices. We believe in a work culture where your ideas and contributions are valued and where you're encouraged to grow, both as a professional and as an individual. You'll be part of a team that not only values high performance but also supports each other's success and champions an inclusive and diverse workplace.

What you will do:

• Actively lead and mentor teams of engineers, fostering a collaborative environment that emphasises knowledge sharing and collective problem-solving
• Work with product and engineering teams to enable greater data literacy, and optimise performance, throughput and quality within their solutions
• Work with teams throughout Xero to help create the solutions, platforms, and integrations required to bring Xero’s data to life
• Collaborate with architecture and engineering leaders to define, design and build data solutions and platforms. Lead small teams to implement these solutions, ensuring timely and successful delivery
• Lead by example, by being a dedicated to automation, documentation, and collaboration at all stages of the engineering workflow, including improving existing solutions or proposing
• Lead initiatives that help drive continuous improvements to data quality, standards, principles and procedures, including a consistent approach to how data quality is measured, monitored and reported

What we look for in an Engineering Manager:

• Extensive practical experience in leading people in delivery and guiding them through their career
• Expert data and technical background demonstrating innovation, initiative and a passion for data
• The ability to lead multiple teams of engineers in delivery of end-to-end solutions
• Confidence in collecting, collating and interpreting business requirements in order to produce quality outcomes
• Possess robust problem solving skills
• Extensive practical experience in engineering data for the purpose of data analytics
• Expert level skills in - large scale data integration and data management
• Experience in streaming and real-time processing

We embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset at Xero. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single competency and have all the relevant experience. If you are excited about this role, and your experience doesn’t align, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be the right person for the role.

If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application and throughout the interview process

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, free medical insurance, 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.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully.  At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset.

Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.

Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.