What you'll do:
- Lead by example – Provide hands-on technical mentorship, guiding engineers to grow their skills and adopt best practices.
- Collaborate cross-functionally – Work closely with Product Managers, Team Leads, Principal Engineers, Lead engineers and other technical leaders to align team efforts with broader SRE and company goals.
- Champion the customer experience – Ensure our tools and systems satisfy the needs of our users and enable them to detect and resolve issues proactively, delivering a seamless and self-service experience.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement – Identify opportunities to enhance our reliability, scalability, and engineering practices while promoting a growth mindset.
What you'll bring:
- Technical Leadership – Experience in managing a team, with a proven ability to inspire and motivate engineers to reach their full potential. You excel at explaining both the “why” and the “how”, ensuring clarity and alignment across the team.
- Software Engineering Expertise – Strong foundation in computer science and software engineering, with deep knowledge of software design, distributed systems, and scalable architectures.
- Strategic Planning & Execution – Skilled at planning, team building, and execution, ensuring that projects meet commitments and are delivered with predictability and high quality.
- Process & Tooling Implementation – Experience in developing tools, processes, internal instrumentation, and methodologies, with the ability to identify and resolve blockers efficiently.
- Agility & Delivery – Comfortable leading teams and projects under tight deadlines and short release cycles, maintaining focus, efficiency, and adaptability in fast-paced environments.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration – Strong product mindset and can understand and anticipate customer needs.
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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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