Lead Software Engineer

Summary

Join Xero's Small Business Growth Division as a Lead Engineer and be a role model for engineering excellence, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices. You will be responsible for leading and mentoring engineers, driving innovation, and collaborating effectively with other teams to deliver high-quality solutions. This role requires proficiency in at least one of C#, NodeJS or React, experience in building applications using these frameworks, and proven experience in auditing codebases, designing and building modern engineering stacks, and leading discussions on application design and implementation. You will also be responsible for staying hands-on with technical tasks, setting the technical direction for the team, and fostering a culture of technical excellence. Xero offers a comprehensive benefits package including generous paid leave, dedicated paid leave for wellbeing, health insurance, life insurance, income protection, wellbeing and sports programs, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits.

Requirements

• Previous tenure in a Lead Engineer / Technical Lead role, with experience delivering software solutions at scale
• Proficiency in at least one of C#, NodeJS or React, with practical experience in building applications using any of these frameworks
• You'll 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
• Proven leadership in on-call practices and deep understanding of monitoring and observability tooling to proactively manage, troubleshoot, and optimise production systems at scale
• Proven experience designing and building modern engineering stacks, ideally with hands-on experience working in AWS
• Ability to lead and/or facilitate discussions on application design and implementation for your team's products
• You'll come with strong leadership traits, and a proven track record of coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines, with Xero's values at heart
• Proven skills to break down a problem into digestible chunks, including weighing up the pros and cons of a potential solution

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

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, health insurance, life insurance, and 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, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero