Lead Engineer, Xero
$229.5-252.5k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Cloud-based accounting software
Open for applications
Cloud-based accounting software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$229.5-252.5k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Expert in your area of specialization
- Able to experiment with new languages and tooling
- Ability to make code design decisions for all teamsʼ products
- Experience in auditing teams codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security,
- Testability, and ability to make changes easily
- Expertise in distributed systems architecture
- Ability to lead or facilitate discussions on application design
- Experience in leading discussions and implementation for scaling products to 2-10 times the
- Number of users
- Able to ensure team products meet Xero's various engineering standards
- Experience in contributing to discussions around new standards and revisions to existing ones
- Able to act as incident coordinator in production incidents
- Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines
What the job involves
- Youʼll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster. Youʼll model the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices
- Youʼll undertake software application development on applications in our suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external. Youʼll contribute to the technical direction of the product group, helping grow our cross functional environment by identifying technical gaps, promoting capability growth, and championing & demonstrating modern principles and practices
- You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to simplify. Youʼll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems more effectively
- What You'll Do:
- Create software - Guide technical design to ensure implementation of architecture principles and good engineering practice. Identify the technical blockers and waste that slow down the team. Work with engineering leadership and delivery teams to identify technical capabilities that need to be grown. Maintain in-depth system knowledge across all system boundaries relating to the teamʼs components as well as hands-on development expertise
- Test software - Guide the quality engineering practices for your team, identifying and resolving challenges to ensure processes and tools are optimized for their context and engineers have the required knowledge and skills. Contribute to and champion Xeroʼs quality strategy and standards
- Resolve issues - Recognize and solve for common patterns of failure in the teamʼs delivery practices, preventing future issues by improving skills, processes or tooling. Measure the cost or value of issues, and open lead incident responses and post-mortems
- Engineering standards & frameworks - Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks. Work closely with engineering leadership to apply standards to software and delivery processes
- Continuous improvement - Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xeroʼs soware applications
- Deliver infrastructure in a production environment - Champion automation of delivery processes and ensure deployment pipelines are fit for purpose. Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively work to prevent customer facing problems
- Modern software and delivery practices - Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space in order to ensure a consistent approach to ways of working
- Recruitment - Participate in interviews and recruitment processes
- What Success Looks Like:
- Live Xeroʼs vision and values - Keeps Xeroʼs vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and leadership. Communicates and helps others understand the importance of the vision and values. Translates the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviours
- Communication skills - Communicates complex ideas skillfully and with nuance, and establishes alignment within the wider organization. Maintains awareness and understanding of the team's vision and strategy to help make better technical decisions
- Build relationships - Builds and maintains trust and credibility with a wide range of internal stakeholders, and supporting teams from across Xero
- Growth mindset - Demonstrates that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. Can lead, coach and provide feedback to others on development plans
- Innovation and delivery - Leads teams to innovate and deliver technology and solve customer
- Problems through soware
- Coaching and mentorship - Role models best practice mentoring and coaching, encourages
- Others to mentor each other and creates ways for them to do so
- Evangelism - Promotes Xero as a great, innovative company and workplace to the wider
- Industry
- Work collaboratively - Empowers and promotes high performing teams
- Self-learning - Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies
- Relevant to Xeroʼs engineering environment
Our take
For a long time, high-quality financial services have been reserved for large-scale businesses. Xero solves this problem by giving small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers access to best-in-class finance and accounting solutions.
Xero is one of the largest companies of its kind, with its promise to save time and effort for small business owners - who often don’t have in-house accounting teams - capturing interest and allowing the company to scale. It has a strong rival in Intuit QuickBooks, which offers similar services, but competes by being most effective for growing startups, and having an incredibly simple user experience.
A series of acquisitions and partnerships, including the purchase of Instafile in 2018, have consolidated Xero’s market share. The company continues to add new integrations, such as with Vehocheck Workshop Manager, and the 2023 launched Beautiful Business Fund that will help small businesses accelerate growth.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Top-spec MacBook or HP Z-book
- Employee Share Plan (own a part of Xero!)
- 23 days holiday plus Bank Holidays (plus an extra 3 days over the Christmas period!)
- 10 days Wellbeing Leave (for sickness, emergencies and taking a mental health break)
- Company Pension Scheme (matched contributions up to 4.5%)
- A range of wellbeing initiatives
- Remote and Flexible Working
Company values
- Human - Xeros are authentic, inclusive and really care. We’re kind and assume the best intent. We’re inclusive, approachable and show empathy. We’re willing to be vulnerable, sharing our fears, failures and learnings.
- Ownership - Xeros deliver on commitments. We do what we say we’ll do. We own our mistakes and take positive action. We move fast to get the right things done.
- Challenge - Xeros are curious. We think and dream big. We welcome challenging conversations and do it with respect. We lead and embrace change, seeking new and better ways.
- Beautiful - Xeros create experiences people love, and that inspire and delight. We do high-quality work and go the extra mile.
- Team - Xeros are great team players. We champion Xero’s purpose and priorities. We work together to do what’s best for Xero and our customers. We appreciate and celebrate each other and our successes.
Company HQ
Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington
Articles
Leadership
Rod Drury
(Founder)Previously Consultant at EY, Founder of Glazier System. Was CEO of AfterMail and Director at TradeMe. Also founded Pacific Fibre and was Director at NZX.
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