Lead Engineer

Summary

Join Xero and help create and deliver beautiful software to customers faster. You will collaborate with other engineers, model engineering excellence, and support team growth. Responsibilities include software application development, contributing to new customer experiences, and contributing to the product group's technical direction. You will build and manage software, solve engineering problems at scale, and make data-driven decisions. You will also live Xero's vision and values, communicate effectively, build relationships, lead innovation and delivery, and provide coaching and mentorship.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as 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
• And many other benefits that reflect our human value