Lead Engineer

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3 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business.
The Role
Lead Engineer overseeing user domain lifecycle at Xero, focusing on reliability and performance, while driving technical direction and mentoring engineers.
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Our Purpose 
At Xero, we’re here to help supercharge small businesses. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

At Xero, the Catalyst Engineering team is the platform engineering and developer enablement function. 🚀 It's responsible for empowering Xero's engineers and their partners with the necessary platforms, tools, and infrastructure to build innovative, reliable, and secure products quickly. Essentially, they build the "engine" that other engineering teams at Xero use to create features for customers.

We are looking for a Lead Engineer to guide a critical team at Xero?

This role leads a pod that is responsible for the user domain, managing the entire lifecycle of a user within Xero's ecosystem. As a Tier 0 service, our systems require extreme reliability, scalability, and performance. Our current focus is to simplify complex integrations and build a seamless, scalable platform that works across all Xero products and services. You will join a tight-knit, collaborative team that fosters ownership and is driven by results. 

This is a unique opportunity to blend strategic thinking with direct, hands-on engineering, driving the future of user identity at Xero. In this hands-on role, you will be the technical cornerstone for the team, making crucial architectural decisions and defining the pod's technical direction. You will also mentor and coach engineers to help them build exceptional, maintainable systems.

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

  • A strong capability for technical leadership and full-stack engineering, with the ability to guide complex software projects from concept to launch.
  • Deep cloud knowledge, especially AWS. 
  • Deep security knowledge, needs a strong understanding of authentication and authorisation languages and patterns
  • Understanding of cloud technologies and experience withCI/CD systems
  • Understanding of containerisation technologies
  • Experience writing APIs and infrastructure-as-code

You will have the opportunity to work with the below technologies:

  • Backend: .NET, REST APIs
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, ECS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker
  • Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQS, Event Store
  • CI/CD & Release: Github Actions
  • Observability & Monitoring: New Relic , Sumo Logic
  • Architecture and practices: Event-Driven systems, scalable microservices

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.

Top Skills

.Net
AWS
Docker
Ecs
Event Store
Github Actions
Kubernetes
New Relic
Postgres
Rest Apis
SQL Server
Sqs
Sumo Logic
Terraform

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The Company
HQ: Wellington
4,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

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

We believe that by simplifying the complex we're not only making life better for small business, we’re helping to create a stronger, more vibrant economy. When you join this team, you’re impacting local communities, on a global scale. Being a Fast Co. Best Workplace for Innovators is a direct reflection of our creative, curious culture.

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