Platform Engineering Manager - Scale, Stability & Strategy (Remote)

Xero; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a platform team of eight engineers responsible for core services used by thousands of organisations. You will guide delivery, help the team grow, and maintain stability while enabling high performance across Auckland, Wellington, and Melbourne.

In the first year, you’ll focus on taking stability to the next level after recovery work, charting a path away from the legacy MyXero database toward an architecture fit for the next twenty years, and

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering with depth to ask thoughtful questions about how things are built.
• Experience guiding a team through scale in a large tech/SaaS company.
• Comfort with high-traffic, business-critical services; working knowledge of infrastructure tooling is a bonus.
• Ability to turn a long-term architecture vision into a plan the team can rally behind.
• Colleagues would say you go together naturally, growing people and building relationships across locations/time zones.

Responsibilities

• Keep our core systems steady, building on the recovery work after outages.
• Plan how services move away from the legacy MyXero database.
• Shape a long-term architecture path for platform services.
• Get to know the team, their expertise and how they work across three locations.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Scale guidance experience

Cross-location collaboration

Infrastructure tooling knowledge

Job description

Xero is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a platform team of eight engineers responsible for core services used by thousands of organisations. You will guide delivery, help the team grow, and maintain stability while enabling high performance across Auckland, Wellington, and Melbourne.

In the first year, you’ll focus on taking stability to the next level after recovery work, charting a path away from the legacy MyXero database toward an architecture fit for the next twenty years, and