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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.
This is a 12 month fixed-term-contract role
Platform Elements is a cross-functional engineering and infrastructure group. We build and support platform products to enable Xero development teams to build and ship software in a fast, reliable and secure manner. Platform Elements leverages modern cloud computing tooling and continuous integration practices, and through our customer centric approach we aim to reduce friction and cognitive load for Xero Product teams.
We use AWS as our major cloud provider, GitHub for source control, a combination of languages like TypeScript and Python for automation, CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions and tools like Argo Rollouts. The team is always evolving and working toward the future so any devops and automation experience can be relevant.
You will work on challenging projects with the team to improve the experience of hundreds of engineers as they build & release software at speed. You will love getting stuck into the technical details, but will also be the first to offer help or guidance if you see an opportunities
What you'll do
- Leading a team of around eight engineers, supporting their growth, engagement, and helping them reach their potential
- Ensure your team’s delivery pipeline is flowing at a predictable and sustainable pace, raising and addressing blockers as appropriate
- Ensure accurate, fit for purpose and sustainable delivery systems exist in your team. You'll be responsible for your team providing informed estimates, delivery forecasting, capacity planning, and associated reporting
- Understand and advocate the Xero engineering standards and practices. Working as part of a leadership group, you’ll facilitate an engineering approach that is compliant to these standards and fosters sustainably excellent engineering
We are looking for someone who has
- Experience of managing software delivery and/or other teams using Lean-Agile techniques
- Excellent grasp of modern software delivery practices and life cycle
- Proven ability to balance the needs of the individual with the needs of the business
- Experience building high performing teams who are innovative, experimental and learn through failure
- A software or infrastructure background, and a basic understanding of modern CI/CD practices
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.
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