What you'll bring to the role:
- Must have hands-on experience building and maintaining robust APIs. Must demonstrate a strong command of API design principles, security measures, and performance optimisation
- Proven experience in tech leading large, complex projects to delivery, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with strategic goals.
- Extensive technical leadership experience on cloud-native platforms, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Strong communicator—able to develop compelling, clear, and focused messages and effectively present them at the executive level.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach engineers (across all levels) on technical challenges and career development.
- Experience contributing to technical vision and advocating for engineering best practices across a portfolio.
- Skilled in developing and implementing techniques to quantify the cost of technical debt and determine when to address it.
- Ability to advocate for and design automated processes and tooling that ensure product delivery is correct, secure, and safe to deploy.
- Proactive in identifying and driving opportunities for improvement by regularly reviewing delivery and production metrics.
- Strong problem-solving skills, simplifying complex technical challenges into clear, actionable outcomes for teams.
- A commitment to fostering a psychologically safe, inclusive environment that supports collaboration and innovation.
What you'll do:
- Technical coaching and mentoring our engineers to reach their full potential
- Assist the teams to contribute to and translate architecture into a technical vision and roadmap across the domain and then assist in implementing that vision over time
- Collaborate with various organisational platforms, to deliver on best engineering practices
- Work with our teams to create solutions while meeting requirements and balancing the goals and constraints of current solution design with desired end state with the responsibility for ensuring the right tool/framework/technique is used for the right job
- Championing and driving engineering principles and practices including assisting in the implementation of new standards, technologies or methodologies
- Provide guidance on non-functional design elements in solutions including security, scalability and performance, monitoring and alerting, analytics, documentation and quality
- Guide and influence technical related decisions across the teams
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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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