Technical Lead

You will be managing a group of engineers while directly contributing to the successful outcomes of the team by supporting excellent engineering and delivery practices which enable rapid delivery of high quality software. You will be responsible for supporting your direct reports in becoming awesome Plandayers, empowering them to deliver high-quality software to customers and fostering the growth of a world-class engineering culture.

You’ll maintain a working environment in which your team can do their best work predictably and sustainably. You’ll make sure the team has all the information they need and the right feedback loops in place to discover and deliver valuable, usable, and buildable outcomes. You’ll monitor and look to support the operational health of your team and products, aiming for resilience.

You will support your team to hone their engineering skills and grow as individuals to meet the capabilities required for the team. Your focus will be on driving engineering initiatives and ensuring the team makes progress towards their goals.

Engineering:

• Maintain a positive and constructive relationship between yourself, your product peers, and your team.

• 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.

• Ensure the health of all the team's products is well understood by the team, discoverable by the wider organisation, and able to be addressed, should problems occur.

• Understand and advocate the Planday Engineering Standards. Working as part of a leadership group, you'll facilitate an engineering approach that is compliant to these standards and fosters sustainably excellent engineering.

• Working with your peers in Product and your team, assist in the development roadmaps and plans which effectively and efficiently deliver business outcomes.

• Maintain a current knowledge of engineering technologies used in the development of Planday software application. Stay up to date with emerging engineering practices, techniques and frameworks.

• Work with engineers and other teams to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, where appropriate. Ensure that post-incident learnings are collected and actioned.

• Coach and enable your team toward effective and efficient delivery.

Job posting contains more responsibilities.

• Utilizing software delivery, technical experience and expertise, offer the right knowledge, at the right time in the right way - understanding why and how people learn.

• Understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. Demonstrate a love of learning and resilience to adversity that is essential for great accomplishment.

• Self-aware, self-regulated, motivated and empathetic, with great interpersonal skills.

• Build and foster an inclusive and positive team culture. Keep the team's vision and values at the forefront of decision-making. Communicate and help others understand the importance of the vision and values. Translate the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviours.

• Have a good understanding of the importance of Xero's Engineering standards and practices and are able to coach teams to adhere to them.

• Demonstrate honesty and integrity. Provide objectives and goals with loose guidelines/directions. Clearly communicate expectations. Have an open mind and the flexibility to change opinions. Develop and support others.

• Work with peers and stakeholders to establish an overall collaborative relationship.

• Outstanding communication and time management skills.

• Benefits like pension, health insurance, inclusive support for new parents and generous vacation

• On top of your annual base salary, you are offered to be part of an Employee Share Plan

• Growth and progression opportunities -- we want you to grow with us

• Flexible remote work

• Strong social culture with lots of team and company activities

• Meaningful work -- everyone at Planday contributes to improving the lives of shift workers around the globe

• Healthy work-life balance and autonomous approach to work. We trust in you and your abilities

Planday from Xero is a leading digital solution that uncomplicates everyday scheduling and workforce management by making it easier for businesses and shift workers around the world to communicate, collaborate, and get work done.

Powered by a community of local industry experts, Planday provides a best-in-class digital platform that is easy to use, accurate, secure, and compliant with local needs and standards. From payroll and accounting to POS and reporting, its open API and tech ecosystem is scalable to fit shifting business needs and to build an engaged, flexible workforce.