Lead Engineer

Xero; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

At a leading company, you will play a critical role in developing software applications that enhance customer experiences. This role involves collaboration and innovation, leveraging technologies like C# and AWS. You will also mentor team members and contribute to setting engineering standards, ensuring the growth and success of the product group.

Benefits

Generous paid leave

Dedicated paid leave for wellbeing

Access to mental health care

Private medical insurance

Gym passes

26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers

Employee Share Plan

Flexible working

Qualifications

• Experience with C#/.NET, React, SQL Server, and AWS.
• Capable of leading discussions on application design.
• Experience auditing codebases for security and testability.

Responsibilities

• Develop software applications in our product suite.
• Communicate technical ideas and build internal relationships.
• Lead teams to deliver technology solutions addressing customer challenges.

Skills

C#/.NET

React

SQL Server

AWS

Job description

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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 businesses, but also building a stronger economy that can change the world.

You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster. You’ll model the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices.

You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external.

You’ll contribute to the technical direction of the product group, helping grow our cross-functional environment by identifying technical gaps, promoting capability growth, and championing & demonstrating modern principles and practices.

You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and demonstrate smart ways to simplify. You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems more effectively.

What you'll do

• Live Xero’s vision and values - Keep Xero’s vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and leadership. Communicate and help others understand the importance of the vision and values. Translate the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviours.
• Communication skills - Communicate complex ideas skillfully and with nuance, and establish alignment within the wider organisation. Maintain awareness and understanding of the team's vision and strategy to help make better technical decisions.
• Build relationships - Build and maintain trust and credibility with a wide range of internal stakeholders and supporting teams from across Xero.
• Innovation and delivery - Lead teams to innovate and deliver technology solutions that solve customer problems through software.
• Coaching and mentorship - Role model best practice mentoring and coaching, encourage others to mentor each other, and create opportunities for them to do so.

What you'll bring with you

• Experience with the technologies we use: C#/.NET, React, SQL Server, and AWS.
• Able to experiment with new languages and tooling.
• Ability to make code design decisions for all teams’ products.
• Experience auditing teams' codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and ease of change.
• Expertise in distributed systems architecture.
• Ability to lead or facilitate discussions on application design.
• Experience leading discussions and implementing scaling strategies for products to 2-10 times the current user base.
• Able to ensure team products meet Xero's engineering standards.
• Experience contributing to discussions around new standards and revisions.
• Able to act as incident coordinator during production incidents.
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers across disciplines.

Why Xero?

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave for physical and mental wellbeing, access to mental health care, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, and many other benefits that reflect our human values. You’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.