Role Overview
We are looking for a Lead Engineer to join the engineering teams behind the Xero Accounting App (XAA), our flagship mobile experience that helps small business owners stay on top of their finances wherever they are. You will balance high‐velocity product delivery with a relentless focus on system health and engineering practices, leveraging AI to improve productivity and ship value to our customers, faster.
You'll tackle open‐ended problems, exercise high‐level technical judgment, and define both the what and the how for multi‐year, multi‐team product or platform goals. You'll lift team performance by providing goal clarity, removing barriers, and establishing a psychologically safe, inclusive culture.
Team Overview
We are the engineering teams behind the Xero Accounting mobile app. We thrive in a hybrid, high‐velocity and cross‐functional workplace, partnering closely with Product and Design teams to deliver beautiful mobile experiences for customers, faster. We collaborate deeply with web, platform and domain teams to ensure a reliable and seamless experience across all channels.
Key Focus Areas
* Ship Value: Lead and deliver high impact mobile workflows for key jobs‐to‐be‐done such as banking, invoicing, payments and files within the mobile channel that surpass customer expectations.
* Operation Excellence: Champion a "production‐first" mindset. Uphold our solemn responsibility for availability, accuracy, security and scalability by automating delivery pipelines and solving common failure patterns. Lead incident responses and champion proactive health monitoring to ensure our systems remain resilient under pressure.
* Efficiency: Get better at our work over time to deliver value more efficiently. Drive efficiency by identifying technical waste, simplifying complex designs, and leveraging modern practices (including AI) to deliver value to customers faster.
Location and Working Mode
The role is based in Melbourne or Sydney, with hybrid work in our beautiful offices. Teams are located in Australia.
Qualifications
* Deep expertise in React Native and Native development, with a proven track record of building robust mobile applications at a global scale, alongside a high degree of openness to learn new technologies.
* Mastery of software design patterns, distributed architectures and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS, Kubernetes and CI/CD).
* Customer obsession that places customer needs at the centre of everything you do.
* Thrives in dynamic environments, translating shifting business directions into clear, exciting opportunities and keeping the team energised, focused and moving toward high‐impact outcomes.
* Bias for action, preferring incremental steps and learning through execution, prioritising practical progress and momentum over over‐analysis.
* Transparent and accurate communication as a fundamental engineering discipline, translating business needs into technical specifications and explaining complex constraints with data‐driven clarity.
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