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A leading company in NZ is seeking a Principal Engineer for its Identity & Auth Team. This role involves technical coaching, influencing architectural visions, and ensuring software solutions meet quality expectations. With attractive benefits, the position offers the chance to impact all Xero customers and contribute to a supportive work environment.
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.
Xero’s Identity & Auth Team looks after the Identity, Authentication and Authorisation experiences at Xero, with a purpose in a building reliable and low friction access to the right products and services for Xero’s customers, partners & engineers. We support both external customer experiences (e.g. login and multi-factor authentication pages), and internal engineering customers (e.g. authentication and authorisation (authz) platforms).
The role
Principal engineer for this area is a role with high impact opportunity. Identity's position within the business means this role has scope to affect change that impacts all Xero Customers and engineering teams. This includes areas like supporting the long term stability and architectural vision for this domain, providing guidance on domain team's auth approach for major business initiatives and ensuring Xero keeps pace with industry Authentication and Authorisation quality expectations. Though identity and Auth expertise is a plus for any candidates, we are very open to those with a desire and ability to rapidly upskill in the needed domains.
What you'll doWhy 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.