Lead Software Engineer – Reporting
Xero
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Wellington • 🇳🇿 New Zealand
Visit company websiteJob Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloud.NETReact
About the role
- Lead Engineer at Xero, a hands-on, strategic technical leader for one of our product teams
- Provide guidance and coaching on delivery, testing, and performance practices
- Contribute to the technical direction of the product group
- Tackle open-ended problems and exhibit a very high standard of technical judgement and innovation
- Opportunity to tackle and lead the technical direction on challenging projects within complex and ambiguous, deeply intertwined codebase
Requirements
- Proven experience as an expert in your specialisation with the ability to adopt new languages and tools
- Strong experience in full-stack development with modern technology stacks
- Experience with core stack of C#/.NET, React, and AWS (or similar cloud providers/tech stacks)
- Demonstrated skill in designing secure, scalable, and maintainable systems
- Track record of success in simplifying complex designs into scalable, flexible components
- Experience leading multiple technical workstreams
- Proven experience in product scaling and distributed architectures
- Demonstrated ability to proactively improve engineering processes to enhance resilience, cost efficiency, and customer experience
- Experienced in managing incidents and ensuring timely resolution and prevention
- Demonstrated capability to coach and mentor engineers, fostering growth and promoting best practices
- Proven ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on problem-solving for local and cross-functional teams
- Experience influencing roadmaps to align with organisational priorities and business goals
- Proven ability to leverage customer and business insights to drive decisions and deliver impactful outcomes
- Track record of success building strong partnerships across teams to achieve shared goals
Benefits
- 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
- 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
- Employee Share Plan
- Beautiful offices
- Flexible working
- Career development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
C#.NETReactAWSfull-stack developmentsecure systems designscalable systems designdistributed architecturesengineering process improvementincident management
Soft skills
coachingmentoringstrategic visionproblem-solvinginfluencingcollaborationcommunicationleadershipinnovationcustomer focus