Lead Engineer

4 days ago


Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Xero Full time

Our Purpose
At Xero, we're here to help you supercharge your business. 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.

About the team:

This specific position will ensure a smooth integration of our recent acquisition of Syft Analytics to accelerate our mission to provide powerful insights. Syft Analytics is the leading global cloud-based reporting, insights, and analytics platform for small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers.

For more information, please check out this post from our CEO, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

About the role:

As a Lead Engineer at Xero, you'll be a role model for engineering excellence, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices.

This is a hands-on, "on the tools" role. You'll play a key role in integrating analytics tools into our ecosystem and building beautiful analytics from the ground up, creating experiences that turn complex data into clear, actionable insights for our customers.

We believe that a solid technical foundation and strong growth mindset are the keys to success in Software Engineering. You won't find a long list of must-have tech requirements below
What you'll do:

Stay hands-on: Dedicate at least 50% of your time to technical tasks, including code and design reviews, technical kick-offs, legacy code exploration, proof-of-concept development, and incident response.
Lead by example: Set the technical direction for the team, mentor team members, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
Drive innovation: Encourage experimentation and the adoption of new technologies to improve our products and processes.
Collaborate effectively: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
Solve complex problems: Tackle challenging technical problems and find innovative solutions.
What you'll bring with you:

Previous tenure in a Lead Engineer / Technical Lead role, with experience delivering software solutions at scale.
You'll be a master of your art, well versed across the full development and implementation lifecycle.
Proven experience in auditing teams codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and to make changes easily; coupled with the ability to make code design decisions for all teams' products.
Ability to lead and/or facilitate discussions on application design, and implementation for scaling products to 10x the number of users.
You'll come with strong leadership traits, and a proven track record of coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines, with Xero's values at heart.
Previous exposure of designing and building modern engineering stacks, ideally with hands on experience working in AWS and GCP.
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, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you'll do the best work of your life at Xero.



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