What you'll do:
- Lead from the front: Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship, fostering a culture of high-velocity, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Be a hands-on coder: Actively write code and contribute to the codebase, tackling our most complex technical challenges.
- Drive our technical direction: In collaboration with other lead engineers and our principal engineer, you'll shape the architecture and define the long-term technical vision for our most critical and innovative projects.
- Raise the bar: Champion high standards for code quality through thoughtful PR reviews, and by improving our testing, CI/CD, and security practices.
You will have the opportunity to work with the below technologies:
- Cloud: AWS (RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch), GCP, Azure
- IaC & Automation: Terraform, Atlantis, Kora, Git
- Languages: Python, Go, Typescript, Bash (tooling and scripting)
- Monitoring: CloudWatch, New Relic
- Security/Compliance: IAM, KMS, Cloud Custodian, OPA
You will have
- A strong capability for technical leadership and full-stack engineering, with the ability to guide complex software projects from concept to launch. Significant knowledge in Terraform, state management, pipelining tooling.
- Deep cloud knowledge, especially AWS. You will need to be strong with troubleshooting and understanding IAM and managing granular permissioning as well as understanding common AWS primitives at a deep level and be familiar with general cloud governance.
- Deep security knowledge, needs a strong understanding of authentication and authorisation languages and patterns for both web service identities like oauth, credential exchange and general policy language
- Experience of modern product and engineering principles and practices
- Understanding of cloud technologies and experience with CI/CD systems
- Understanding of containerisation technologies
- Experience writing APIs and infrastructure-as-code
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What We Do
Xero is small business accounting software that provides a platform on which businesses can build a fully integrated solution. It’s designed to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. Xero minimises tedious admin by automating routine tasks, delivers valuable insights when needed, and brings together business data, trusted advisors, and powerful apps in one intuitive platform. By alleviating pain points, Xero empowers small business owners to supercharge their business, simplifying the complex and freeing up time from manual admin so they can focus on what really matters to build the business they’ve always envisaged.
Why Work With Us
Xero is a human-centric organization where you’ll have a tangible impact on the success of small businesses and their communities, globally. Our team of energised, forward-thinkers work to make life better for our customers and each other every day. We’re also always committed to supporting you with a flexible environment.
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