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
Join the Growth portfolio and help shape the future of customer-facing experiences in Xero! We leverage technologies like React and .NET Core to build cloud-first applications that are scalable, efficient, and innovative.
If you're passionate about creating modern, customer-centric solutions in a fast-paced environment, we want you on our team!
About the role:
Principal Engineers at Xero helps break down silos within (and across) functions, influencing others to reach the best outcome for Xero. They build deep cross-functional relationships, facilitate the right conversations, and settle disagreements by managing different viewpoints.
With a focus on hypothesis-driven development and an experiment-first approach, you'll have the freedom to test and validate your ideas before bringing them to life. Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and other teams to deliver high-impact solutions that drive real business results.
What you'll do:
- You will act as a role model and standard of excellence that supports a culture of high performance. Driving engineering-wide processes and defining the bar for quality and best practices.
- You'll come with strong leadership traits, with the aim to lift team performance through goal clarity, feedback, removal of barriers, coaching and establishing a psychologically safe inclusive team culture.
- You'll be an expert in your space with your finger on the pulse of technology, devoting time to spreading knowledge widely via talks, blog posts or written documentation.
- You'll influence the technical strategy of your group; often partnering closely with senior product and engineering leadership to ensure the health of product development as a whole, and the overall direction of product development. Additionally, day to day you'll collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to align technical solutions with business needs.
- You'll share expertise and experience to connect and support the growth of a culture of continuous empathy towards our customers, with the ability to make architectural decisions and understand complex systems to guide teams effectively.
- You'll be motivated to grow the talent in the team, by identifying skill gaps and ensuring there is a clear strategy to close those gaps.
What you'll bring:
- Proven experience in a similar software engineering position, with a focus on system architecture and design; ultimately achieving engineering excellence at scale!
- Demonstratable knowledge, skills, and expertise of technical leadership. This will include: driving project goals, maintaining high standards of quality, and a deep understanding of the relevant technologies, tools, and processes.
- Broad technical exposure, ideally in a full-stack environment with a lean towards front-end technologies; coupled with previous exposure of designing and building modern engineering stacks.
- A focused mindset to champion a culture of experimentation, encouraging the team to test new ideas and technologies through prototypes and proof-of-concept projects.
- Previous experience working across experimentation, onboarding, and/or personalization of a SaaS product would be highly beneficial.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder traits, with the ability to negotiable and influence others without authority, always keeping Xero's values at heart.
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.
Top Skills
Xero Hawthorn West, Victoria, AUS Office
Xero Melbourne (HQ) Office
Xero’s head office in Australia is in the buzzing suburb of Hawthorn, a stone’s throw from the CBD. Here, a diverse mix of Xeros work in both global and regional teams.
