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Sydney
Xero
Software Engineer
Posted: 25 June
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Lead Software Engineer - Small Business Growth

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Lead Software Engineer - Small Business Growth

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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.

Be at the forefront of empowering small businesses and advisors to thrive Our dynamic Small Business Growth Division builds innovative solutions dedicated to providing solutions that simplify complexity and drive informed decision-making. From transforming accounting data into clear, actionable insights, best-in-market reporting, to creating seamless and intelligent experiences with integrated platforms, we're building the future of small business management.

Our teams work on the foundational suite of services focused on organisations and their data, we evolve key platforms for scalability and innovation, and we ensure secure and intuitive gateways for new customers. If you're passionate about solving complex problems with a human-centered approach and owning outcomes that truly matter, join us in making life beautiful for small businesses worldwide.

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.

Join Xero's Small Business Growth Division We have a range of roles across our various teams. Dive into hands-on roles shaping how customers understand their businesses through impactful reporting and analytics, seamless integrations, robust platforms, and secure access. Drive innovation and make a real difference

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 bring with you:

* Previous tenure in a Lead Engineer / Technical Lead role, with experience delivering software solutions at scale.
* Proficiency in at least one of C#, NodeJS or React, with practical experience in building applications using any of these frameworks.
* 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.
* Proven leadership in on-call practices and deep understanding of monitoring and observability tooling to proactively manage, troubleshoot, and optimise production systems at scale.
* Proven experience designing and building modern engineering stacks, ideally with hands-on experience working in AWS.
* Ability to lead and/or facilitate discussions on application design and implementation for your team's products.
* 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.
* Proven skills to break down a problem into digestible chunks, including weighing up the pros and cons of a potential solution.

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.

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, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you'll do the best work of your life at Xero.


Seniority level

* Seniority level

Not Applicable


Employment type

* Employment type

Full-time


Job function

* Job function

Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries

Software Development

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