Key responsibilities include:
- Driving Engineering Excellence: You'll help define engineering standards, frameworks, and best practices across the organisation. You'll advocate for new technology and tooling, promote quality standards, and proactively address technical debt.
- Shaping Technical Strategy: You'll contribute to the technical roadmap and architectural direction for your product group and influence group-level technical strategy. You'll simplify complex technical challenges and make data-driven decisions.
- Mentorship and Leadership: You'll break down silos and facilitate collaboration across teams. You'll mentor and coach engineers on technical challenges and career development, fostering a culture of learning and development. You'll also participate in recruitment and engage with the external tech community.
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience leading large, complex projects to delivery, with a focus on technical excellence.
- Extensive technical leadership experience with cloud-native platforms, including a strong focus on scalability and reliability.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present compelling messages at an executive level.
- A commitment to fostering a psychologically safe and inclusive environment that supports collaboration and innovation.
- Experience in quantifying the cost of technical debt and determining when to address it.
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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
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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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Join us from home or at one of our beautiful workspaces. Xero has offices in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Singapore, and South Africa.
