Lead Engineer - Growth

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.

About the team

Join the Growth portfolio and help shape the future of customer-facing experiences in Xero! We leverage technologies like React and .NET Core to build cloud-first applications that are scalable, efficient, and innovative. With a focus on hypothesis-driven development and an experiment-first approach, you'll have the freedom to test and validate your ideas before bringing them to life. Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and other teams to deliver high-impact solutions that drive real business results. 

If you're passionate about creating modern, customer-centric solutions in a fast-paced environment, we want you on our team!

About the role

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. This is an individual contributor role where you'll coach the team from a technical perspective without being a formal people manager.

We're seeking a leader with a solid technical foundation and a proven track record in technically guiding high-performing engineering teams. You’ll understand the importance of balancing product strategy and technical goals. Your success will hinge on your ability to proactively mitigate risks, evaluate solutions, and uphold the highest engineering standards. We’re looking for someone who can ignite a culture of innovation and teamwork within their pod. You will be working to coach the team and individuals’ growth, while also helping to set and drive the bigger architectural and technical vision.

What you'll bring

• Expertise in event driven architecture and microservices.
• 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.
• 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.

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