Lead Engineer, Xero
CA$186-236k
Eligibility commissions or equity based on role and performance
Accounting software for small businesses
Be an early applicant
Accounting software for small businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$186-236k
Eligibility commissions or equity based on role and performance
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience delivering and operating complex, large-scale systems (distributed/high-availability environments), with strong fundamentals and the ability to ramp quickly across adjacent technologies (we’re tech-stack agnostic)
- You bring a growth mindset and a passion for proactively maintaining and sharing technical knowledge with your peers
- A background in designing and building high-quality software within a range of languages and tools is essential
- You possess the ability to lead major code design decisions and contribute to wider technical solutioning
- Experience with modern engineering practices like automated testing, refactoring, and agile delivery is key to your success
- You enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow their technical skills through supportive coaching
- A deep care for technical excellence and a drive to solve large-scale engineering challenges motivates your daily work
- Apply even if your experience isn't a perfect match! At Xero, we hire based on your skills, passion, and the unique perspective you can bring to enhance our culture and team
What the job involves
- You will focus on solving engineering problems at scale, moving beyond feature delivery to influence the architecture and implementation of distributed systems
- By refactoring complex, monolithic systems and building high-quality, scalable software, your work ensures our platform remains robust and reliable for millions of global users
- As a senior member of the team, you will have the autonomy to make major code design decisions and contribute to global engineering standards
- You will balance technical excellence with mentorship, acting as a role model and coaching others through complex technical challenges to help them grow
- You will join a collaborative environment where engineers, product owners, and designers work together using agile and delivery practices to ship meaningful code
- The team prioritises continuous learning and mastery, frequently participating in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions to maintain a high bar for technical craft
- Modernising systems by refactoring monolithic components into distributed, scalable architectures
- Enhancing the developer experience through the maturation of CI/CD concepts, tooling, and TDD practices
- Building and maintaining a diverse tech stack that includes C#, .Net, React, AWS, and Kubernetes
- Developing and implementing technical solution designs that align with long-term engineering frameworks
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.
Steph
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Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington
Leadership
Prior to Xero, she founded Boardlist and Joyus. She also served as the CEO of Polyvore and as a President of Asia Pacific and Latin America Operations at Google.
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