Lead Software Engineer - Product & Technology

Summary

Join Xero as a Lead Engineer and be a key part of a product team, focusing on technical decision-making and strategic thinking. This hands-on role involves guiding the team in best practices for delivery, testing, and performance. The position offers growth opportunities into Principal Engineer or Architecture roles. Xero offers multiple positions across Xero Product and Xero Platform, prioritizing a strong technical foundation and growth mindset over specific tech stack experience. The company values self-awareness, a growth mindset, openness to feedback, teamwork, customer focus, and commitment to an inclusive culture. Xero is dedicated to being a sustainably excellent software engineering company, offering exposure to complex global challenges and various benefits.

Requirements

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

• 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
• 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