Lead Engineer - Platform

Summary

Join Xero's Platform Elements team as a Lead Engineer and contribute to building and managing key products that enable rapid resource provisioning and management in the cloud. Lead from the front, providing hands-on technical leadership and mentorship while actively writing code and tackling complex technical challenges. Drive the technical direction, shaping architecture and defining the long-term technical vision for critical projects. Champion high standards for code quality and improve testing, CI/CD, and security practices. Work with various technologies including AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, and more. This role requires strong technical leadership, full-stack engineering skills, deep cloud and security knowledge, and experience with modern product and engineering principles.

Requirements

• A strong capability for technical leadership and full-stack engineering , with the ability to guide complex software projects from concept to launch
• Significant knowledge in Terraform, state management, pipelining tooling
• Deep cloud knowledge , especially AWS
• You will need to be strong with troubleshooting and understanding IAM and managing granular permissioning as well as understanding common AWS primitives at a deep level and be familiar with general cloud governance
• Deep security knowledge , needs a strong understanding of authentication and authorisation languages and patterns for both web service identities like oauth, credential exchange and general policy language
• Experience of modern product and engineering principles and practices
• Understanding of cloud technologies and experience with CI/CD systems
• Understanding of containerisation technologies
• Experience writing APIs and infrastructure-as-code

Responsibilities

• Lead from the front: Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship, fostering a culture of high-velocity, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Be a hands-on coder: Actively write code and contribute to the codebase, tackling our most complex technical challenges
• Drive our technical direction: In collaboration with other lead engineers and our principal engineer, you'll shape the architecture and define the long-term technical vision for our most critical and innovative projects
• Raise the bar: Champion high standards for code quality through thoughtful PR reviews, and by improving our testing, CI/CD, and security practices

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
• 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