Lead Engineer

Summary

Join Xero as a Lead Engineer and become a key member of a product team. This hands-on role blends technical expertise with strategic thinking, requiring you to guide the team in best practices for delivery, testing, and performance. You will coach the team technically, focusing on high-quality code, scalable solutions, and adherence to engineering standards. Success depends on your ability to mitigate risks, evaluate solutions, and foster innovation and teamwork. Xero offers a comprehensive benefits package including generous paid leave, wellbeing programs, medical insurance, parental leave, and more.

Requirements

Expertise in event driven architecture and microservices

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and coaching around great delivery, testing and performance practices
• Make code design decisions for all teams’ products
• Audit teams' codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and ability to make changes easily
• Lead or facilitate discussions on application design
• Lead discussions and implementation for scaling products to 2-10 times the number of users
• Ensure team products meet Xero's various engineering standards
• Contribute to discussions around new standards and revisions to existing ones
• Act as incident coordinator in production incidents
• Coach and mentor engineers across multiple disciplines
• Help to set and drive the bigger architectural and technical vision

Benefits

• Very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing
• Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Free medical insurance
• 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