Offer summary

Qualifications:

Experience as a Lead Engineer or Technical Lead delivering scalable software solutions., Proficiency in C#, NodeJS, or React, with practical application development experience., Strong understanding of full development and implementation lifecycle, including code auditing and security standards., Leadership skills in mentoring engineers, managing on-call practices, and designing modern engineering stacks, preferably with AWS..

Key responsibilities:

Lead and support your team to grow technical capabilities and improve development practices.

Dedicate at least 50% of your time to hands-on technical tasks such as code reviews, design, and incident response.

Set technical direction, mentor team members, and foster a culture of excellence.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions and solve complex technical problems.

Job description

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 Payments Help Small Businesses Thrive by Powering the Future of Cash Flow

We know that for small businesses, managing cash flow isn’t just important—it’s everything. That’s why our Payments team is reimagining how money moves through the Xero platform: faster, smarter, and seamlessly embedded in everyday workflows.
Whether it’s getting paid, paying bills, or running payroll, we’re building intuitive, intelligent systems that make cash flow management effortless. Join us and help shape the tools that keep small businesses moving forward!

Our payments products and platforms directly support the core jobs for millions of small businesses globally. They’re growing fast and evolving constantly. We embrace platform thinking as a force multiplier, while continuously improving the product for our small businesses through experimentation. Were passionate about AI in our development tools and products, and were looking for people who share that enthusiasm. It’s a space of big impact, bold ambition, and incredible opportunity.

About the role

As a Lead Engineer at Xero, youll be a role model for engineering excellence, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices.

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 musthave tech requirements below!

What youll bring with you:Previous tenure in a Lead Engineer Technical Lead role, with experience delivering software solutions at scale.
Proficiency in at least one of C#, NodeJS or React, with practical experience in building applications using any of these frameworks.
Youll 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.
Proven leadership in oncall practices and deep understanding of monitoring and observability tooling to proactively manage, troubleshoot, and optimise production systems at scale.
Proven experience designing and building modern engineering stacks, ideally with handson experience working in AWS.
Ability to lead andor facilitate discussions on application design and implementation for your teams products.
Youll come with strong leadership traits, and a proven track record of coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines, with Xeros values at heart.
Proven skills to break down a problem into digestible chunks, including weighing up the pros and cons of a potential solution.

What youll do:
Stay handson: Dedicate at least 50% of your time to technical tasks, including code and design reviews, technical kickoffs, legacy code exploration, proofofconcept 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 highquality solutions.
Solve complex problems: Tackle challenging technical problems and find innovative solutions.
Why Xero? Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that. Our humanfirst culture of respect, fairness, and inclusion is what helps Xeros thrive and work and beyond, and that includes our candidates. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience, but you could be just the right person for this role. If you are excited about working at Xero, but your past experience doesnt align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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 and dental reimbursement with vision allowances, a healthcare spending account, fertility and family forming financial support, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with shared meals, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.