Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.
At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.
About the team:
This specific position will ensure a smooth integration of our recent acquisition of Syft Analytics to accelerate our mission to provide powerful insights. Syft Analytics is the leading global cloud-based reporting, insights, and analytics platform for small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers.
For more information, please check out this post from our CEO, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy!
Please note, due to your collaborating team being based in South Africa, this position may require regular late hours between 5pm to 8pm, on Tuesday and Wednesday for the first 12 months.
About the role:
As a Lead Engineer at Xero, you'll be a role model for engineering excellence, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices.
This is a hands-on, "on the tools" role. You'll play a key role in integrating analytics tools into our ecosystem and building beautiful analytics from the ground up, creating experiences that turn complex data into clear, actionable insights for our customers.
We believe that a solid technical foundation and strong growth mindset are the keys to success in Software Engineering. You won’t find a long list of must-have tech requirements below!
What you'll do:
- Stay hands-on: Dedicate at least 50% of your time to technical tasks, including code and design reviews, technical kick-offs, legacy code exploration, proof-of-concept development, and incident response.
- Lead by example: Set the technical direction for the team, mentor team members, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
- Drive innovation: Encourage experimentation and the adoption of new technologies to improve our products and processes.
- Collaborate effectively: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Solve complex problems: Tackle challenging technical problems and find innovative solutions.
What you'll bring with you:
- Previous tenure in a Lead Engineer / Technical Lead role, with experience delivering software solutions at scale.
- You'll be a master of your art, well versed across the full development and implementation lifecycle.
- Proven experience in auditing teams codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and to make changes easily; coupled with the ability to make code design decisions for all teams’ products.
- Ability to lead and/or facilitate discussions on application design, and implementation for scaling products to 10x the number of users.
- You'll come with strong leadership traits, and a proven track record of coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines, with Xero's values at heart.
- Previous exposure of designing and building modern engineering stacks, ideally with hands on experience working in AWS and GCP.
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, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, 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.
Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. Our goal is to make sure you feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.
At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.
