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Leads a software engineering team responsible for reliable, scalable systems. Balances roadmap delivery with technical excellence, team development, operational health, and long-term sustainability. Guides architecture modernization, CI/CD improvements, AI-native development workflows, incident response, system design, and technical debt reduction while partnering with Product and Design to deliver customer value.

Lead the design and implementation of scalable distributed systems, modernize monolithic applications, and improve developer experience through CI/CD, automated testing, refactoring, and TDD. Make major architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers through complex technical challenges. Collaborate with product owners and designers in an agile environment while building and operating reliable software for millions of users.

Build and operate Xero’s enterprise Salesforce platform through hands-on development, code reviews, design reviews, incident response, proofs of concept, security improvements, CI/CD automation, release engineering, observability, and agentic change management. The role partners across engineering teams, writes technical documentation, sets platform standards, supports production reliability, and mentors senior engineers while maintaining high deployment and uptime standards.

Lead development of highly available, distributed payments platform services and global bill payment capabilities. Design scalable, secure, high-throughput backend systems, APIs, and database solutions while integrating multiple payment providers and risk controls. Contribute hands-on production code and proofs of concept, establish technical direction, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and promote AI tools that improve engineering productivity.

Maintain and evolve Xero’s large-scale search infrastructure, supporting 50+ million documents, 400TB of data, and 99.9% uptime. Contribute to a search platform modernization project, cluster maintenance, ingestion pipeline integration, and search partnerships. Collaborate with product, architecture, and platform teams while developing search engineering expertise through code reviews and progressively more complex work.

Build and improve developer-first platform tools, engineering workflows, delivery systems, and unified tooling for thousands of engineers. Solve complex cross-organizational technical challenges, scale AI-native development practices, influence senior stakeholders, and mentor engineers through collaboration and technical leadership. The role is distributed across Australia and New Zealand with quarterly in-person sessions.

Build and operate scalable backend software for Xero’s Accounting Core platform. Responsibilities include migrating monolithic systems to microservices, developing cloud services with C#/.NET Core and AWS, resolving legacy and database scalability challenges, modernizing APIs, automating processes, applying test-driven and trunk-based development, collaborating with stakeholders, and mentoring teammates.

Design and build scalable distributed systems, modernize monolithic components, improve CI/CD and testing practices, and develop technical solutions using technologies such as C#, .NET, React, AWS, and Kubernetes. The role includes making major architectural decisions, operating large-scale systems, contributing to engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and collaborating within an agile team.

Lead full-stack engineering for foundational Practice Tools systems, delivering billing changes, Xero Partner Hub rollout, legacy system retirement, authorization improvements, and reliable infrastructure. Build with React and JavaScript or TypeScript alongside Java or .NET, manage CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting, and drive adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development workflows. Mentor engineers and guide technical methodology while progressing toward senior technical leadership.

Design, build, and operate scalable distributed systems for millions of users. Modernize monolithic systems, improve CI/CD and testing practices, make major architectural decisions, develop technical solutions, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product owners and designers in an agile hybrid environment while maintaining high standards for software quality, reliability, and technical excellence.