| Job Title | Lead Engineer |
| Company | xero |
| Job Location | Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Remote New Zealand |
| Workplace Type | Hybrid |
| Job Type | Permanent |
| Job Category | Technology: Product Engineering – Catalyst Engineering |
| Min Pay | 0 |
| Max Pay | 0 |
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| 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.At Xero the Catalyst Engineering team is the platform engineering and developer enablement function. 🚀 It's responsible for empowering Xero's engineers and their partners with the necessary platforms tools and infrastructure to build innovative reliable and secure products quickly. Essentially they build the ""engine"" that other engineering teams at Xero use to create features for customers.We are looking for a Lead Engineer to guide a critical team at Xero?This role leads a pod that is responsible for the user domain managing the entire lifecycle of a user within Xero's ecosystem. As a Tier 0 service our systems require extreme reliability scalability and performance. Our current focus is to simplify complex integrations and build a seamless scalable platform that works across all Xero products and services. You will join a tight-knit collaborative team that fosters ownership and is driven by results. This is a unique opportunity to blend strategic thinking with direct hands-on engineering driving the future of user identity at Xero. In this hands-on role you will be the technical cornerstone for the team making crucial architectural decisions and defining the pod's technical direction. You will also mentor and coach engineers to help them build exceptional maintainable systems. ➡ What you'll do: ➡ Lead from the front: Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship fostering a culture of high-velocity innovation and continuous improvement.Be a hands-on coder: Actively write code and contribute to the codebase tackling our most complex technical challenges.Drive our technical direction: In collaboration with other lead engineers and our principal engineer you'll shape the architecture and define the long-term technical vision for our most critical and innovative projects.Raise the bar: Champion high standards for code quality through thoughtful PR reviews and by improving our testing CI/CD and security practices. You will have ➡ A strong capability for technical leadership and full-stack engineering with the ability to guide complex software projects from concept to launch.Deep cloud knowledge especially AWS. Deep security knowledge needs a strong understanding of authentication and authorisation languages and patternsUnderstanding of cloud technologies and experience withCI/CD systemsUnderstanding of containerisation technologiesExperience writing APIs and infrastructure-as-code You will have the opportunity to work with the below technologies: ➡ Backend: .NET REST APIsCloud & Infrastructure: AWS ECS Kubernetes Terraform DockerData & Messaging: PostgreSQL SQL Server SQS Event StoreCI/CD & Release: Github ActionsObservability & Monitoring: New Relic Sumo LogicArchitecture and practices: Event-Driven systems scalable microservices ➡ 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 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." |
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