Lead Engineer, Xero
Syft
Accounting software for small businesses
Open for applications
Accounting software for small businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.
Role
Who you are
- You bring expertise in designing secure, scalable distributed systems and managing software at scale with proficiency in our core tech stack, Node js, AWS
- A background in coaching and mentoring engineers, helping them grow their technical capabilities, is essential
- You possess strong communication skills, with the ability to navigate complex technical ideas and build alignment
- Your growth mindset drives a passion for continuous learning, experimentation, and sharing technical knowledge
- An ability to lead incident responses, resolve failure patterns, and guide quality testing strategies will be highly valued
- You offer a collaborative approach to problem-solving, welcoming diverse perspectives and encouraging a healthy team culture
- 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 collaborate with peers across Xero to create and deliver software to our customers
- By modelling engineering excellence, you will support your team to grow their technical capability, improve development practices, and tackle open-ended architectural challenges
- Your work will directly shape the technical direction of the product group, breaking down silos and driving multi-year product or platform goals
- Through data-driven decisions and smart simplification of complex systems, you will help solve customer problems effectively and release value early
- This cross-functional engineering team focuses on building and managing software that solves complex problems at scale
- Working in a collaborative and safe environment, team members coordinate closely to align technical designs with broader architectural standards
- Together, they foster a culture of ownership, experimentation, and feedback to deliver high-quality outcomes
- The Syft UK pod is working on high-impact reporting and insights engineering across Xero
- Current work includes Budgets API and Reporting integration, the Benchmarking rebuild, and resilience improvements to the Syft-X API as demand grows from both customer-facing experiences and internal consumers
- As a Lead Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on technical leader: setting direction, supporting engineers to deliver well, and improving how the team works across design, delivery, deployment and support
- You’ll help us build smaller, safer changes, strengthen operational visibility, and reduce dependency on a small number of people for critical knowledge and production work
Salary benchmarks
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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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