Lead Engineer

A platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.
Backend
Staff Software Engineer
Remote
8+ years of experience
Finance

Description For Lead Engineer

Xero is seeking a Lead Engineer to join their Bills Product team, a core feature handling billions of documents monthly. This hands-on technical leadership role combines strategic thinking with practical engineering expertise. The position offers a clear growth path to Principal Engineer or Architect roles. You'll be responsible for guiding technical decisions, mentoring team members, and ensuring engineering excellence while working on a platform that serves small businesses and their accounting advisors. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, championing modern engineering practices, and contributing to the technical direction of the product group. You'll work in a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and work-life balance, with comprehensive benefits and flexible working arrangements. The ideal candidate will have expertise in distributed systems, leadership experience, and a proven track record of scaling products and mentoring engineers.

Last updated a month ago

Responsibilities For Lead Engineer

  • Guide technical design and implementation of architecture principles
  • Provide mentorship and coaching to ensure best practices
  • Guide quality engineering practices for the team
  • Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks
  • Champion automation of delivery processes
  • Lead incident responses and post-mortems
  • Participate in interviews and recruitment processes
  • Work with engineering leadership to apply standards to software and delivery processes

Requirements For Lead Engineer

  • Expert in area of specialization
  • Experience with distributed systems architecture
  • Ability to lead discussions on application design
  • Experience in scaling products 2-10 times the number of users
  • Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines
  • Ability to make code design decisions for teams' products
  • Experience in auditing team codebases
  • Ability to act as incident coordinator in production incidents

Benefits For Lead Engineer

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Parental Leave
Mental Health Assistance
Equity
  • Generous paid leave
  • Health insurance
  • Dental reimbursement
  • Vision allowances
  • Healthcare spending account
  • Fertility and family forming financial support
  • Wellbeing and sports programmes
  • 26 weeks parental leave for primary caregivers
  • Employee Share Plan
  • Flexible working
  • Career development
  • Employee Assistance Program

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