Lead Engineer

Summary

Join Xero's Inventory team as a Technical Lead and contribute to a significant upgrade of our inventory offering. You will guide technical design, champion quality engineering practices, resolve issues, and contribute to engineering standards and frameworks. This role involves hands-on development, leading complex changes, mentoring engineers, and participating in recruitment. The team is global, with locations in New Zealand and America, requiring openness to travel. You'll collaborate with various teams and receive support from experienced engineers and leadership.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge in C#/.NET
• Able 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

Responsibilities

• Create software - Guide technical design to ensure implementation of architecture principles and good engineering practice
• Identify the technical blockers and waste that slow down the team
• Work with engineering leadership and delivery teams to identify technical capabilities that need to be grown
• Maintain in-depth system knowledge across all system boundaries relating to the team’s components as well as hands-on development expertise
• Test software - Guide the quality engineering practices for your team, identifying and resolving challenges to ensure processes and tools are optimised for their context and engineers have the required knowledge and skills
• Contribute to and champion Xero’s quality strategy and standards
• Resolve issues - Recognise and solve for common patterns of failure in the team’s delivery practices, preventing future issues by improving skills, processes or tooling
• Measure the cost or value of issues, and often lead incident responses and post-mortems
• Engineering standards & frameworks - Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks
• Work closely with engineering leadership to apply standards to software and delivery processes
• Continuous improvement - Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications
• Deliver infrastructure in a production environment - Champion automation of delivery processes and ensure deployment pipelines are fit for purpose
• Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively work to prevent customer facing problems
• Modern software and delivery practices - Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space in order to ensure a consistent approach to ways of working
• Recruitment - Participate in interviews and recruitment processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Some exposure to PHP
• Able to experiment with new languages and tooling

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
• 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