Lead Software Engineering - Product & Technology

Summary

Join Xero as a Lead Engineer (Tech Lead) and become a key member of a product team. This hands-on role involves providing technical guidance and coaching to the team, ensuring high-quality delivery, testing, and performance practices. You will be responsible for aligning technical decisions with strategic thinking and have the opportunity to grow into a Principal Engineer or Architecture role by demonstrating your ability to influence engineering excellence within the organization. Xero offers a collaborative and inclusive culture, a diverse range of challenges at a global scale, and a commitment to sustainable engineering excellence. You will have the opportunity to work on projects like linking payments to global markets, developing the third-party ecosystem, and delivering solutions to small businesses worldwide.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• As a Lead Engineer (aka Tech Lead) at Xero, you will be working as a key part of one of our product teams
• It is a hands on, on the tools role and you’ll be the focal point where technical decisions meet strategic thinking
• Day to day, you'll support the team by providing guidance and coaching around what great delivery, testing and performance practices look like
• These roles will also enable you to grow into a Principal Engineer or Architecture role, as you demonstrate the ability to influence the organisation around you towards engineering excellence
• Join an inclusive cross-functional team and collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering
• Use the latest engineering and software delivery practices, at scale
• 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

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