Team Lead Engineering - Mobile

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.The Channels and Experience Mobile team creates beautiful native mobile experiences for small business owners. You'll lead one of seven Mobile pods, a cross-functional team of iOS, Android, and API engineers. The team is passionate, collaborative, and ready for upcoming challenges.Your role is to support your team in becoming awesome Xeros, empowering them to deliver high-quality software, and fostering a great engineering culture. You'll work with Product Managers and Designers to ensure the team has well defined roadmaps and clear responsibilities, and remove blockers in a timely fashion.You'll create and maintain an environment where your team can perform their best work consistently by supporting excellent engineering and delivery practices which enable rapid delivery of high quality software. You'll ensure they have all necessary information and establish effective feedback loops to discover and deliver valuable, usable, and timely outcomes.You will help your team hone their engineering skills and grow individually to meet the required capabilities. Your focus will be on driving engineering initiatives and ensuring the team progresses towards their goals.Additionally you'll:

• Drive a culture of engagement and improvement, making sure the team understands how they help our customers and our business achieve great outcomes.
• Make sure your team understands and adheres to modern engineering practice in line with organisational objectives.
• Build and maintain a positive and constructive relationship with the product owner, designers and others to ensure the delivery pipeline is flowing at a predictable and sustainable pace, raising and addressing blockers as appropriate.
• Ensure the health of your team is monitored, that all members of your team are empowered to raise ideas and concerns, and that everyone contributes to improvements in how the team works together
• Helping each of your people to become the highest performing version of themselves using a variety of techniques which may include performance feedback, career development, coaching and mentoring.
• All aspects of people leadership and management to engage, retain and develop staff (i.e. recruitment, performance feedback, staff training and career development, leave approval)

What you'll bring with you

• Leadership skills to create engaged and high performing product teams
• Utilizing your passion for modern software development practices and keenness to use Agile methodologies to ensure your teams are operating in the most effective and efficient way through continuous improvement
• Balancing, communicating and prioritization the needs of individuals, your teams and the business as a whole.
• Coaching and Mentoring cross-functional teams with a focus on learning and ownership within your team.
• Utilising OKRs to help the team set, track, and hit quarterly goalsKeeping your team's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and actions and making this a priority to the wider team in their day-to-day behaviours and activities.

We want our people to do the best work of their lives and to fulfil their career goals while having the balance to focus on the things and people they love too.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.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. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. Our goal is to make sure you feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.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.