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As an Engineering Manager at Xero, you will lead a high-performing, inclusive engineering team while serving as the technical anchor for your organization. You will balance predictable roadmap delivery with a relentless focus on team growth, technical excellence, and system health.
Your core responsibilities include:
- Leading and coaching a results-driven team that operates with clear goals and ownership, fostering a high-trust environment where blameless problem-solving is the norm
- Guiding your team to modernize architectures and improve CI/CD maturity to reduce operational risk
- Championing AI-native engineering workflows across the software development lifecycle to boost velocity and reduce toil
- Refining system design and architecture for high-scale, high-availability distributed systems
- Driving visibility into system health and technical debt to enable proactive improvements
- Collaborating closely with Product and Design partners to shape solutions that matter to customers
- Translating business goals into executable engineering plans that balance short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
- Leading or overseeing incident response for complex distributed systems
Xero is a Great Place to Work UK-accredited company offering flexible work arrangements. You can work remotely, hybrid, or in-office at locations in London, Milton Keynes, or Manchester. The company provides boost days for connection and collaboration.
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:
- Extensive professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of technical maturity and delivering complex systems
- Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and performance-managing engineers, including building and improving team capability over time
- Hands-on experience writing, reviewing, and debugging production code, with the technical credibility to guide engineering decisions
- Experience building and supporting high-scale, high-availability distributed systems, including leading or overseeing incident response
- Experience leading teams in the adoption of AI-native engineering workflows to improve developer productivity and quality
- Proven track record of translating business goals into executable engineering plans, balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
