As a Lead Engineer, you will drive mobile app delivery, guide technical decisions, mentor team members, and collaborate cross-functionally on product features.
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
About the team and role
In this Lead Engineer role you'll be joining one of the dedicated teams that primarily work on mobile apps, more specifically, owning the signup flow, which involves handling in-app subscriptions, purchases, and all the integrations involved.
Our mobile teams are multi-disciplinary, with specialists in iOS, Android, and Backend Engineering all within a single team, working together to craft software for Xero's native mobile products.
Our team is distributed across Australia and New Zealand, where we work collaboratively with cross-functions such as Design, Marketing, and Product. This has enabled multiple achievements, such as Apple's "App of the Day" in April 2025.
We’re all about driving delivery, by getting value into the hands of our customers: Building app features that are reliable and scalable. We like to constantly improve our work with research, experiments, health monitoring, and prototyping. Essentially, we're involved in every step of the product journey for Xero's millions of users.
We’re not just looking for someone who’s great at coding (any of the specialisms mentioned above), we want somebody who can move the needle on results. We want someone who loves to help others grow. You’ll be crucial in making architectural decisions, implementation decisions, offering technical guidance, and mentoring to fellow developers. We're looking for somebody who can be agnostic in their decision making, so your expertise can help anybody within the team.
We’ll count on you to keep a finger on the pulse of the latest technologies and seize opportunities to incorporate them into our mobile team’s work, this can be within the industry, but also within Xero's engineering space too.
What you'll do
- Continually driving delivery by ensuring engineering paths forward are clear, by identifying and handling blockers early.
- Working in a cross-functional environment, you’ll work with Product, Design & Data peers to design, prototype and implement product features.
- Be involved with the entire lifecycle for what we build, by being involved with ambiguous early requirements, exploring feasibility, refinement, right through to launching into production.
- Identify opportunities in current technology and architecture to recommend solutions, including tech improvements for stability, monitoring, and fault tolerance.
- Provide specialism-agnostic input when engineers in the team need help, offering technical guidance and mentoring to help them grow and be the best version of themselves.
- Keep an ear to the ground in an effort to stay up to date with mobile development technologies; identify and promote opportunities to make use of these technologies within the mobile team.
What you'll bring with you
- You’ll be joining a high-impact team, so previous experience in a technical lead role is preferred.
- A technical fluency in either native iOS, Android, or Backend (preferably C#) is essential, and an appetite to understand and learn the rest of the stacks is beneficial
- Ability to make code design decisions for all teams’ products, and lead or facilitate discussions on application design.
- You'll be able to ensure team products meet Xero's various engineering standards. - Experience in auditing teams codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and ability to make changes easily.
- Proven leadership capabilities, with experience in coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines. You'll be a robust, resilient, and #human leader with a strong drive to take ownership of the technical direction of the team and product.
- Previous exposure to working in similar product based environment to Xero, with collaboration being a key part of your typical working model.
Why Xero?
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
Top Skills
Android
Backend
C#
iOS
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