Lead Engineer

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster. You’ll model the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices.

You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external.

You’ll contribute to the technical direction of the product group, helping grow our cross functional environment by identifying technical gaps, promoting capability growth, and championing & demonstrating modern principles and practices.

You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to simplify. You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems more effectively

What you'll do

• Live Xero’s vision and values - Keeps Xero’s vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and leadership. Communicates and helps others understand the importance of the vision and values. Translates the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviours.

• Communication skills - Communicates complex ideas skilfully and with nuance, and establishes alignment within the wider organisation. Maintains awareness and understanding of the team's vision and strategy to help make better technical decisions.

• Build relationships - Builds and maintains trust and credibility with a wide range of internal stakeholders, and supporting teams from across Xero.

• Innovation and delivery - Leads teams to innovate and deliver technology and solve customer problems through software.

• Coaching and mentorship - Role models best practice mentoring and coaching, encourages others to mentor each other and creates ways for them to do so.

What you'll bring with you

• Experience in the tech we use C#/.NET, React, SQL Server, and AWS

• Able to experiment with new languages and tooling.

• Ability to make code design decisions for all teams’ products.

• Experience in auditing teams codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and ability to make changes easily.

• Expertise in distributed systems architecture.

• Ability to lead or facilitate discussions on application design.

• Experience in leading discussions and implementation for scaling products to 2-10 times the number of users.

• Able to ensure team products meet Xero's various engineering standards.

• Experience in contributing to discussions around new standards and revisions to existing ones.

• Able to act as incident coordinator in production incidents.

• Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines.

What to expect from the Interview Process:

Our interview process is designed to give you an understanding of the role and what it's like to work at Xero, allowing us to assess your skills and experience. Here's what you can expect:

CV screening call: A brief introductory call with our talent team to discuss your application and answer any initial questions you may have.

Take-Home task: A technical task in two parts to assess your skills and technical aptitude in a real-world scenario.

Technical interview: An in-depth interview with our technical team to evaluate your technical expertise and knowledge.

Team and values alignment interview (Culture Contribution Interview) : A final interview with your potential team members to assess overall fit for the role and ensure alignment on values and working styles.

We really do appreciate your time and aim to make the process as efficient and transparent as possible. We look forward to receiving your application!

Why Xero?

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, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.