Lead Engineer

Summary

Join Xero as a Lead Engineer and play a pivotal role in integrating analytics tools into our ecosystem. You will be a hands-on leader, dedicating at least 50% of your time to technical tasks while mentoring your team and driving innovation. This role requires experience in delivering software solutions at scale, leading teams, and making code design decisions. You'll need strong leadership skills and experience with modern engineering stacks, ideally with AWS and GCP. Xero offers a comprehensive benefits package including generous paid leave, health insurance, life insurance, parental leave, and more, fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• Previous tenure in a Lead Engineer / Technical Lead role, with experience delivering software solutions at scale
• Be a master of your art, well versed across the full development and implementation lifecycle
• Proven experience in auditing teams codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and to make changes easily; coupled with the ability to make code design decisions for all teams’ products
• Ability to lead and/or facilitate discussions on application design, and implementation for scaling products to 10x the number of users
• Strong leadership traits, and a proven track record of coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines, with Xero's values at heart

Responsibilities

• Stay hands-on: Dedicate at least 50% of your time to technical tasks, including code and design reviews, technical kick-offs, legacy code exploration, proof-of-concept development, and incident response
• Lead by example: Set the technical direction for the team, mentor team members, and foster a culture of technical excellence
• Drive innovation: Encourage experimentation and the adoption of new technologies to improve our products and processes
• Collaborate effectively: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions
• Solve complex problems: Tackle challenging technical problems and find innovative solutions

Preferred Qualifications

Previous exposure of designing and building modern engineering stacks, ideally with hands on experience working in AWS and GCP

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
• An Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• 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