Lead Engineer

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.

You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster. You’ll model the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices.

You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external.

You’ll contribute to the technical direction of the product group, helping grow our cross functional environment by identifying technical gaps, promoting capability growth, and championing & demonstrating modern principles and practices.

You’ll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to simplify. You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers’ problems more effectively.

What you’ll do

• Live Xero’s vision and values – Keeps Xero’s vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and leadership. Communicates and helps others understand the importance of the vision and values. Translates the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviours.
• Communication skills – Communicates complex ideas skilfully and with nuance, and establishes alignment within the wider organisation. Maintains awareness and understanding of the team’s vision and strategy to help make better technical decisions.
• Build relationships – Builds and maintains trust and credibility with a wide range of internal stakeholders, and supporting teams from across Xero.
• Innovation and delivery – Leads teams to innovate and deliver technology and solve customer problems through software.
• Coaching and mentorship – Role models best practice mentoring and coaching, encourages others to mentor each other and creates ways for them to do so.

What you’ll bring with you

• Experience in the tech we use C#/.NET, React, SQL Server, and AWS
• Able to experiment with new languages and tooling.
• Ability to make code design decisions for all teams’ products.
• Experience in auditing teams codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and ability to make changes easily.
• Expertise in distributed systems architecture.
• Ability to lead or facilitate discussions on application design.
• Experience in leading discussions and implementation for scaling products to 2-10 times the number of users.
• Able to ensure team products meet Xero’s various engineering standards.
• Experience in contributing to discussions around new standards and revisions to existing ones.
• Able to act as incident coordinator in production incidents.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines.

“Our mission as the Women of Xero employee resource group is to empower women by fostering an environment where they can thrive, lead, and contribute to their own and Xero’s success. We’re proud to support this collaboration with the Women in Tech forum – it represents a significant step towards creating a more diverse and inclusive tech community.”

Xero serves customers in 180 countries around the world; our customers represent many different cultures, walks of life, and personal circumstances. We consider building an open and inclusive workforce, which is representative of the customers and communities we serve, to be critical to delivering our purpose and strategy. Cultivating an open and inclusive culture also allows Xero to attract and retain top talent, and to benefit from a diversity of perspectives as we seek to innovate and better serve all our stakeholders. We believe creating an organisation where all can thrive is key to fostering a high-performance culture