Lead Software Engineer

Summary

Join Xero as a Lead Engineer and become a key member of a product team. This hands-on role blends technical decision-making with strategic thinking, where you'll guide the team in best practices for delivery, testing, and performance. This position offers growth opportunities into Principal Engineer or Architecture roles. Xero offers multiple positions across product and platform development, prioritizing a strong technical foundation and growth mindset. The company values a collaborative and inclusive culture, encouraging applications even if experience doesn't perfectly align. Xero provides generous benefits, including paid leave, wellbeing programs, and career development opportunities.

Requirements

• Have relevant experience that will help you get started quickly
• Be happy to learn as you go

Responsibilities

• Work as a key part of one of our product teams
• Be the focal point where technical decisions meet strategic thinking
• Support the team by providing guidance and coaching around what great delivery, testing and performance practices look like
• Join an inclusive cross-functional team and collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering
• Use the latest engineering and software delivery practices, at scale

Preferred Qualifications

• Self-awareness and growth mindset
• Openness to learning from failure
• Honesty, transparency and encouraging of feedback
• Teamwork, collaboration and mentorship
• Customer and product focus
• Commitment to supporting an inclusive culture and upholding Xero’s values

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
• 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
• Support your growth with various training and development resources, including the opportunity to become AWS certified
• Get involved with the Xero Mentorship Program, our many communities of practice and Employee Resource Groups such as Rainbow X, Parents @ Xero, Neurodiversity @ Xero and many more