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Lead Engineer
xero
Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Remote New Zealand
"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."
4 day(s) ago
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Senior Engineer - Android
xero
Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Hawkes Bay, NZ / Remote New Zealand
"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 role:As a Senior Android Engineer you'll be joining one of the dedicated teams that primarily work on mobile apps either owning the signup flow (including in-app purchases) or our payments space.Our mobile teams are multi-disciplinary with specialists in iOS Android and Backend Engineering all within a single team working together to craft software for Xero's native mobile products.Our team is distributed across Australia and New Zealand where we work collaboratively with cross-functions such as Design Marketing and Product. This has enabled multiple achievements such as Apple's ""App of the Day"" in April & May 2025.We’re all about driving delivery by getting value into the hands of our customers: Building app features that are reliable and scalable. We like to constantly improve our work with research experiments health monitoring and prototyping. Essentially we're involved in every step of the product journey for Xero's millions of users.We’re not just looking for someone who’s great at coding we want somebody who can move the needle on results. We want someone who loves to help others grow. You’ll be crucial in making architectural decisions implementation decisions offering technical guidance and mentoring to fellow developers. We're looking for somebody who can be agnostic in their decision making so your expertise can help anybody within the team. We’ll count on you to keep a finger on the pulse of the latest technologies and seize opportunities to incorporate them into our mobile team’s work this can be within the industry but also within Xero's engineering space too.What you'll bring to the role:- You’ll be joining a high-impact team so previous experience in a senior engineer role is preferred.- An appetite to understand and learn the rest of the stacks (iOS Backend - preferably C#) is beneficial.- Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers.- Previous exposure to working in a similar product based environment to Xero with collaboration being a key part of your typical working modelA technical fluency in Android is essential especially in the following areas:- Kotlin & Coroutines- Testing knowledge – including unit testing etc.- Dependency Injection – XAA heavily relies on DI (Hilt) so I believe this is also a must-have skill.- Jetpack Compose – something we expect candidates to use as almost all new screens are built with Compose.- Knowledge and experience working with MVVM and clean architecture patterns. ➡ What you'll do: ➡ Continually delivering results through writing code and code reviews.Lead and/or participate in technical and architectural discussionsWorking in a cross-functional environment you’ll work with Product Design & Data peers to design prototype and implement product features.Identify opportunities in current technology and architecture to recommend solutions including tech improvements for stability monitoring and fault tolerance.Provide input when engineers in the team need help offering technical guidance and mentoring to help them grow and be the best version of themselves.Keep an ear to the ground in an effort to stay up to date with mobile development technologies identify and promote opportunities to make use of these technologies within the mobile team. ➡ 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."
15 day(s) ago
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Senior Engineer - API
xero
Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Hawkes Bay, NZ / Remote New Zealand
"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 role:You'll be joining one of the dedicated teams that primarily work on Xero’s mobile apps we are currently hiring for two Senior Backend Engineer roles. Ownership is covering the global signup flow which involves handling in-app subscriptions purchases and all the integrations involved or working on invoicing and contacts management with a current focus on building functionality for the US market.Our mobile teams are multi-disciplinary with specialists in iOS Android and Backend Engineering all within a single team working together to craft software for Xero's native mobile products.Our teams are distributed across Australia and New Zealand where we work collaboratively with cross-functions such as Design Marketing and Product. This has enabled multiple achievements such as Apple's ""App of the Day"" in April and May 2025.We’re all about driving delivery by getting value into the hands of our customers: Building app features that are reliable and scalable. We like to constantly improve our work with research experiments health monitoring and prototyping. Essentially we're involved in every step of the product journey for Xero's millions of users.We’re not just looking for someone who’s great at engineering we want somebody who can move the needle on results. We want someone who loves to help others grow. You’ll be crucial in making architectural decisions implementation decisions offering technical guidance and mentoring to fellow developers.What you'll do:- You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale.- You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers faster.- You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our existing suite of products (including new ones) contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers internal and external.- You’ll help maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero and support your team members in building products together. - You’ll demonstrate leadership on best practices and be a role model and mentor for other team members. - You’ll contribute to our cross functional environment by working towards the same objectives using modern principles and practices.- You’ll be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to automate.- You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems more effectively. ➡ What you'll bring with you: ➡ Strong advocate and teacher of TDD and automated tooling to safely and repeatedly release code.Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling.Able to make major code design decisions for individual products.High coding standards and an emphasis on testing.Experience in developing software that is secure performant and scalable.Experience with agile methodologies.Experience using and keeping up with latest .NET development trends.C# and .NET proficiency.Experience working with AWS and Kubernetes. Previous experience enabling mobile teams from an API perspective is a bonus.And previous experience developing iOS or Android software is an additional bonus. What you'll do as a Senior Engineer at Xero: ➡ Create software – Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence develop high-quality and scalable software and coach others to do the same. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews as a role model for giving and receiving feedback.Test software – Design and perform sophisticated testing activities that effectively and efficiently reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and quality criteria. Coach team members to enable high-quality testing in line with Xero’s quality strategy and standards.Resolve issues – Efficiently assess the causes and identify solutions for development or production issues and effectively communicate the impact to stakeholders. Recognise common patterns of failure to mitigate issues before they reach production. Proactively participate in incident responses and contribute to post-mortems.Engineering standards & frameworks – Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks. Work closely with the Lead and Principal Engineers to apply standards to software and delivery processes.Continuous improvement – Proactively maintain grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications.Deliver infrastructure in a production environment – Champion automation of delivery processes. Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively works to prevent customer-facing problems.Modern software and delivery practices – Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space in order to ensure a consistent approach to ways of working.Recruitment – Participate in interviews and recruitment processes. ➡ 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."
15 day(s) ago
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Senior Engineer - DevOps
xero
Auckland, NZ / Remote New Zealand / Wellington, NZ
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:You’ll be a key part of the (DrDRE) Platform-as-a-Service Database team a cross-functional agile infrastructure development team. Our goal is to create a data platform to provide Xero product teams with highly available databases in a consistent and automated fashion. You will build on the technical capabilities of the team to provision own and maintain the production Database infrastructure troubleshoot performance issues build ancillary tooling automation and resolve production incidentsAbout the role:We're looking for a proven Senior Engineer with a background in DevOps SQL Terraform Octopus Deploy AWS.You will make an impact by applying your engineering skills to understand and drive the development of applications and tools that improve the scalability and performance of Xero.If you enjoy flexibility in the way you work and diving into difficult engineering problems while having the freedom to solve them creatively this is the role for you. ➡ What you'll do: ➡ Be customer-focused and directly engage with our PaaS customers  identify customer pain points and solve real customer problems based on observing their struggles and analysing customer data.Develop continuous delivery pipelines and software tools to automate cloud-based solutions.Build and maintain a centralised SQL Server platform and ancillary tools to enable Xero’s development teamsAutomate and support infrastructure provisioned in AWS with infrastructure-as-code solutionsContinuously improve processes and solutions to be scalable and highly availableImplement detection and alerting of anomalous behavioursMaster several technical areas while maintaining a broad understanding of the current industry landscape. Ensure technical decisions are made with your team in alignment with Xero’s engineering practice. Work proactively with your manager on your personal and career development highlighting any training/development needs.You will join the teams on call rotation and use analytical and problem solving skills to resolve incidents. What you'll bring: ➡ Database/Infrastructure - SQL/Postgres/DynamoScripting - Python Powershell (desirable) Infrastructure as Code - Terraform CloudformationCICD - Github Actions Octopus Deploy TeamcityCloud Platform - AWS ➡ Why XeroOffering 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.Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses including ours to better understand and serve customers attract top talent and innovate successfully.  At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.
16 day(s) ago
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Lead Engineer - Platform
xero
Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Remote New Zealand
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.Platform Elements is a cross-functional agile infrastructure development team. The Platform Elements team builds platform products to enable Xero development teams to build and ship software in a fast reliable and secure manner.  Platform Elements leverages modern cloud computing tooling and continuous integration practices. Through our customer centric approach we aim to reduce the cognitive load for Xero Product teams. Sonic build and manage several key Products at Xero that enable other teams to rapidly provision and manage resources in the Cloud (primarily AWS but we're looking at supporting Azure and GCP soon!). We  make everything we build self-service so that we are not the bottleneck for developers. ➡ 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 the opportunity to work with the below technologies: ➡ Cloud: AWS (RDS S3 VPC IAM CloudWatch) GCP AzureIaC & Automation: Terraform Atlantis Kora GitLanguages: C# Bash Python (tooling and scripting)Monitoring: CloudWatch New RelicSecurity/Compliance: IAM KMS Cloud Custodian OPA 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. Significant knowledge in Terraform state management pipelining tooling.Deep cloud knowledge especially AWS. You will need to be strong with troubleshooting and understanding IAM and managing granular permissioning as well as understanding common AWS primitives at a deep level and be familiar with general cloud governance.Deep security knowledge needs a strong understanding of authentication and authorisation languages and patterns for both web service identities like oauth credential exchange and general policy languageExperience of modern product and engineering principles and practicesUnderstanding of cloud technologies and experience with CI/CD systemsUnderstanding of containerisation technologiesExperience writing APIs and infrastructure-as-code ➡ 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.
18 day(s) ago
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Senior Engineer - AI Practice
xero
Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Remote New Zealand
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 RoleJoin LaunchCrew to drive enhancements to our Agentic AI/MCP platforms and support our engineering productivity services. You’ll design build and rollout multi-agent workflows that solve engineers’ most pressing jobs-to-be-done improve day-to-day developer experience and reduce toil. You’ll also create how-to guides sample code and demo to support workshops and product releases mentor junior engineers collaborate across functions and own operational health for the services delivered. ➡ What You’ll Do ➡ Design prototype and ship AI/MCP workflows and agent examples to streamline tasks such as pipeline migration and incident triage.Build and maintain the infrastructure behind MCP servers and provide BAU support for Accelerator’s templates and CLI.Create concise guides sample code and demo scripts that help engineers learn our AI releases and empower them to upskill and build their own AI agents for their specific use cases.Deliver live demos and partner with facilitators to showcase real-world AI workflows.Own production support—triage incidents drive reliability improvements and lead post-incident reviews.Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with Education Platform and Security teams to validate designs and share best practices.Run spikes on emerging AI/ML frameworks gather metrics and feedback and refine both code and enablement materials. What You’ll Bring ➡ 3+ years’ experience building and operating backend services (for example with .NET Core and Python) and defining CI/CD pipelines.Demonstrated ability to prototype end-to-end AI agents—spanning orchestration deployment and monitoring.Strong track record creating developer-focused documentation tutorials and demos.Excellent collaboration skills: you partner across functions solicit feedback and drive consensus.Experiment-driven mindset: you thrive in ambiguity iterate rapidly from spike to delivery and put users first. ➡ 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. We offer 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!
18 day(s) ago
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Engineering Team Lead
xero
Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Remote New Zealand
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 XeroAt Xero we're on a mission to make life better for people in small business their advisors and communities around the world. We combine the scale and resources of a global tech leader with the energy and ambition of a startup. Our purpose is at the heart of everything we do and we support our people to do the best work of their lives guided by our values of #Human #Beautiful #Challenge and #Together.About the EcosystemReady to make a huge impact? The Ecosystem is a central and established part of Xero's success connecting millions of users to a global network of app partners. The engineering function within the Ecosystem is comprised of four teams each with about six engineers working together on a shared mission. We're looking to accelerate our pace and foster a culture of innovation and agility as we build powerful new features and capabilities for our platform.As a Team Lead you will be responsible for the health happiness and high performance of one of these engineering teams creating an environment where they can do their best work.About the Role: Lead Coach and DeliverAs an Engineering Team Lead your primary focus is on your people and their delivery. You are dedicated to building a resilient high-performing and autonomous team. You will partner closely with a Product Manager and a Lead Engineer to guide the team's work but your passion lies in coaching and developing your engineers to the point where they can operate effectively without you. You'll be responsible for creating a supportive and inclusive environment where the team can thrive feeling proud of their work and happy to contribute. This includes fostering a culture of high standards and accountability where challenges are met with support.This is a people leadership role focused on growing engineers and fostering an amazing team culture. While your priority is people leadership we expect you to be a capable engineer who can be hands-on with code and architecture when the team needs it. ➡ What you'll do: ➡ Lead and develop your team: Nurture a team of talented engineers through regular coaching mentoring career development conversations and performance feedback.Foster a healthy culture: Cultivate a positive inclusive and collaborative team environment where psychological safety and a culture of feedback are paramount.Drive impactful delivery: Partner with the Product Manager to create clear realistic plans that focus on shipping value. You'll ensure the team delivers on its commitments with both speed and quality.Grow the team: Be responsible for hiring and onboarding new engineers ensuring they are set up for success from day one.Champion effective practices: Guide the team in agile and lean principles helping them to continuously improve their ways of working and deliver value efficiently.Represent your team: Act as the voice of your team ensuring their successes are celebrated and their challenges are understood by the wider organisation. What you'll bring: ➡ A passion for people leadership with a focus on successfully mentoring coaching and growing engineers.A strong delivery mindset. You have a knack for pragmatic planning a drive to get things done and excel at creating an environment of ownership and accountability.A commitment to building autonomous teams. You foster a culture of deep ownership and trust empowering your team to take initiative and eventually operate without you as a critical dependency.A commitment to creating a high-trust environment through transparency. You are skilled at having candid constructive conversations about performance and failure always with the goal of helping the team and individuals grow.A genuine belief that a happy team is a high-performing team. You care about your people's wellbeing and are motivated by seeing them proud of what they deliver.A drive for continuous improvement. You're always looking for ways to make the team better whether it's through improving processes or championing new technologies like AI-powered coding.High emotional intelligence (EQ). You are self-aware empathetic and skilled at building strong trusting relationships.A deep understanding of agile and lean delivery. You know how to create a high-performing sustainable team environment and effectively apply concepts like MVP.Excellent communication and facilitation skills. You encourage healthy debate can navigate difficult conversations and align people towards a common goal.Strong technical capabilities as a hands-on engineer. You have the ability to contribute to code design and architecture allowing you to effectively guide your team through their most complex challenges. ➡ 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.
29 day(s) ago
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Lead Engineer - API Platform
xero
Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Remote New Zealand / Hawkes Bay, NZ
"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 TeamAt the core of Xero's product innovation is the ""Catalyst Engineering"" portfolio our dedicated platform engineering and developer enablement function. We are the engine that powers Xero's global engineering teams and our vibrant Partner Ecosystem. Our mission is to provide the platforms and toolchains that enable the rapid secure and robust development of products that delight Xero’s customers. The Catalyst team is at the forefront of technology strategy and adoption at Xero comprising some of the brightest technology leaders in the industry. This technical Lead Engineer role sits within our pivotal API Golden Pathways group which is charged with creating a seamless high-quality and consistent API ecosystem. As a Lead Engineer you will be instrumental in guiding an engineering pod dedicated to the Xero Gateway the single critical point of ingress for all inbound API traffic to Xero. You will drive the strategy and execution for advancing our API-first initiatives focusing on ingress versioning security documentation and discovery to accelerate our speed to market.About the RoleAs a Lead Engineer you will be the technical authority and mentor for the Xero Gateway pod. You will guide the team in designing building and maintaining the critical infrastructure that underpins our public-facing APIs. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will blend deep technical expertise with a passion for mentoring and a strategic vision for platform engineering. You will be empowered to make significant technical decisions drive engineering excellence and shape the future of how Xero connects with the world. ➡ What you'll do: ➡ Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the design development and operation of the Xero Gateway and associated API ingress solutions.Mentor coach and develop a high-performing team of engineers fostering a culture of innovation accountability and engineering excellence.Own the architectural vision and technical roadmap for your pod's domain ensuring solutions are scalable secure resilient and align with Xero's broader technical strategy.Champion and implement modern engineering principles including infrastructure as code comprehensive automation and data-driven decision-making to enhance the effectiveness of Xero's platform.Lead complex engineering projects from initial concept through to delivery and ongoing operational support solving challenging problems at scale.Collaborate with product managers architects and other engineering leads to define priorities influence cross-team initiatives and ensure the successful delivery of our API platform strategy.Act as a subject matter expert on cloud networking API gateways and infrastructure security driving best practices across the engineering community. What you'll bring: ➡ Proven experience in a technical leadership role with a track record of mentoring engineers and delivering complex distributed systems.Deep expertise in cloud networking and infrastructure particularly with AWS and a strong command of container orchestration using Kubernetes.Extensive hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform to build and manage production environments.Strong software development fundamentals with proficiency in languages such as C# or Typescript.A strategic mindset with the ability to solve complex problems assess technical trade-offs and make data-informed decisions.Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.Experience with API gateways (such as Gloo Gateway or similar) and a strong understanding of API lifecycle management is highly desirable. ➡ 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. We offer 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!"
30 day(s) ago
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Lead Engineer, Xero Ecosystem
xero
Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Remote New Zealand
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 EcosystemReady to make a huge impact? The Ecosystem is a central and established part of Xero's success connecting millions of users to a global network of app partners. The engineering function within the Ecosystem is comprised of four teams each with about six engineers working together on a shared mission. We're looking to accelerate our pace and foster a culture of innovation and agility as we build powerful new features and capabilities for our platform.As a Lead Engineer you will be embedded within one of these teams while also being a key member of the technical leadership group that collaborates across the entire Ecosystem. You'll have the unique opportunity to drive initiatives within your team and influence the technical direction across all four.We own the Xero App Store empower thousands of developers through our developer portal and we're breaking new ground with embedded applications a brand new Xero MCP server and pioneering AI agent integrations. This is your chance to bring your drive and agility to shape major initiatives take ownership and help us move faster.About the Role: Build Lead and ShipThis isn't just a leadership role you're a builder at heart. As a Lead Engineer you'll be at the center of our most ambitious projects. We need a leader who can drive technical strategy write code and most importantly accelerate the entire team. You'll have the freedom to make key architectural decisions and the support to see them through to production. If you thrive on turning big ideas into reality and want to ship products that millions will use this is the role for you.This is a hands-on role where you will not only lead and mentor but also contribute to the codebase tackle complex technical challenges and champion a culture of speed and engineering excellence.Please note: This is a senior Individual Contributor (IC) role focused on technical leadership mentorship and driving key initiatives. This role does not have people management responsibilities which distinguishes it from our Team Lead role. ➡ 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. What you'll bring: ➡ A strong capability for technical leadership and full-stack engineering with the ability to guide complex software projects from concept to launch.Proficiency in modern web technologies. Our stack is primarily C# on the backend and TypeScript/React on the frontend. More than specific tool experience we value your strong engineering fundamentals and your drive to master new technologies as they emerge.Deep capability in cloud architecture and system design with the ability to build and operate scalable resilient microservices-based systems on AWS.A bias for action and a result-oriented approach. You excel at balancing technical investment with product priorities to deliver impactful outcomes fast.A passion for multiplying your impact. You're a coach and a mentor who knows that your success is measured by the team's success. You clear roadblocks and empower other engineers to build amazing things.An obsession with improvement. You constantly seek out and champion new tools and approaches—like AI-powered coding—to make the whole team more productive.Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. ➡ 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. We offer 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!
1 month(s) ago
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Senior Engineer, Mobile (Android)
xero
Auckland, NZ / Remote New Zealand / Wellington, NZ
Our PurposeAt Xero we’re here to make running a business beautiful. By making small business more efficient every day connecting them with big business technology and empowering a community behind them their potential is limitless. When that happens we’re not only helping small business we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.How you’ll make an impactYou will develop software for mobile products on the Android Development platform. You’ll continually drive delivery and continuous product improvement. You’ll help maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero and support your team members in building products together. You’ll demonstrate leadership on best practices and be a role model and mentor for other team members. You’ll contribute to our cross-functional environment by working towards the same objectives using modern principles and practices. You’ll be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to automate. 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 ➡ Create software – Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence develop high-quality and scalable software and coach others to do the same. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews as a role model for giving and receiving feedback.Test software – Design and perform sophisticated testing activities that effectively and efficiently reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and quality criteria. Coach team members to enable high-quality testing in line with Xero’s quality strategy and standards.Resolve issues – Efficiently assess the causes and identify solutions for development or production issues and effectively communicate the impact to stakeholders. Recognise common patterns of failure to mitigate issues before they reach production. Proactively participate in incident responses and contribute to post-mortems.Engineering standards & frameworks – Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks. Work closely with the Lead and Principal Engineers to apply standards to software and delivery processes.Continuous improvement – Proactively maintain grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications.Deliver infrastructure in a production environment – Champion automation of delivery processes. Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively works to prevent customer-facing problems.Modern software and delivery practices – Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space in order to ensure a consistent approach to ways of working.Recruitment – Participate in interviews and recruitment processes. How you'll do it ➡ Live Xero’s vision and values – Keep Xero’s vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and actions. 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 – Proactively share information actively solicit feedback manage and facilitate communication if needed.Build relationships – Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and team. Be seen as a key 'go to' person for advice.Growth mindset – Understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. Coach and provide feedback to others on development plans.Innovation and delivery – Proactively innovate and deliver technology in a team and solve customer problems through software.Coaching and mentorship – Teach small groups of engineers and contribute to Xero's shared knowledge base.Work collaboratively – Help individuals resolve difficult problems with empathy exchange ideas demonstrate conflict management skills.Self-learning – Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies relevant to Xero’s engineering environment. Stay up to date with Google’s and other Android development technologies and identify and promote opportunities to make use of these technologies within the mobile team. What you'll bring with you ➡ Critical competencies and experience:Strong advocate and teacher of TDD and automated tooling to safely and repeatedly release code.Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling.Able to make major code design decisions for individual products.An eye for detail and passion for good UI/UX.Expert command of Android Studio IDE.High coding standards and an emphasis on testing.Experience in developing software that is secure performant and scalable.Experience with agile methodologies.Experience using and keeping up with latest Android development trends.Kotlin proficiency.Knowledge and experience working with MVVM and clean architecture patterns. What we value ➡ Human – Xeros are authentic inclusive and really care.Challenge – Xeros dream big lead and embrace change.Team – Xeros are great team players.Ownership – Xeros deliver on our commitments.Beautiful – Xeros create experiences that people love. ➡ This position description is intended merely as a guideline of the responsibilities involved in the position. The employee is expected to perform any other duties as reasonably required by their Manager.
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