Lead Engineer

Summary

Join Xero as a Lead Engineer and become a role model for engineering excellence, supporting your team's growth and development. This hands-on role involves integrating analytics tools, building analytics from the ground up, and creating user-friendly experiences. You will lead the technical direction, mentor team members, and foster a culture of technical excellence. You'll collaborate with various teams to deliver high-quality solutions and solve complex technical problems. Xero offers a supportive environment and numerous benefits to help you thrive.

Requirements

• Previous tenure in a Lead Engineer / Technical Lead role, with experience delivering software solutions at scale
• Be 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

• 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
• Set the technical direction for the team, mentor team members, and foster a culture of technical excellence
• Encourage experimentation and the adoption of new technologies to improve our products and processes
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions
• 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
• Private medical insurance
• Gym passes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working