Principal Engineer

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June 4

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Xero

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Financial Services • SaaS • B2B

Xero is a provider of cloud-based accounting software designed to help small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers manage their finances in real time. The platform offers a range of features including billing, expense tracking, and VAT returns. Xero also integrates with various apps to streamline financial management and control cash flow for businesses. It supports a wide range of business types, including non-profits, self-employed individuals, and those in construction and trades. With over 4. 2 million subscribers worldwide, Xero offers different pricing plans to cater to various business needs. Additionally, Xero has an affiliate program and offers resources such as webinars and guides to assist new users.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2006

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $300M Post-IPO Debt on 2018-09

📋 Description

• You’ll work in collaboration with multiple teams within a product group to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster. • You’ll help define the standard for engineering excellence at Xero and lead initiatives to grow the technical capabilities of engineers and evolve the technical architecture of our software in support of the product roadmap. • You’ll understand the product vision & strategy and work with product and engineering leadership to ensure technical decisions and implementations are aligned with strategic goals. • You’ll lead the growth of our cross functional environment, contributing to the technical roadmap and architectural direction across the product group and wider if necessary. • You'll help teams build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. • You will be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to simplify. • You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems more effectively.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience in tech leading large, complex projects to delivery, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with strategic goals. • Extensive technical leadership experience on cloud-native platforms, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and performance. • Strong communicator—able to develop compelling, clear, and focused messages and effectively present them at the executive level. • Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach engineers (across all levels) on technical challenges and career development. • Experience contributing to technical vision and advocating for engineering best practices across a portfolio. • Skilled in developing and implementing techniques to quantify the cost of technical debt and determine when to address it.

🏖️ 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 as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family • Private medical insurance • Gym passes • Employee resource groups • 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers • An Employee Share Plan • Beautiful offices • Flexible working