Principal Engineer

Posted:
1/19/2025, 10:31:18 AM

Location(s):
New South Wales, Australia ⋅ Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ⋅ Victoria, Australia ⋅ Queensland, Australia ⋅ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ⋅ Canberra, Australia

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

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

Join the Growth portfolio and help shape the future of customer-facing experiences in Xero! We leverage technologies like React and .NET Core to build cloud-first applications that are scalable, efficient, and innovative. 

If you're passionate about creating modern, customer-centric solutions in a fast-paced environment, we want you on our team!

About the role:

Principal Engineers at Xero helps break down silos within (and across) functions, influencing others to reach the best outcome for Xero. They build deep cross-functional relationships, facilitate the right conversations, and settle disagreements by managing different viewpoints.

With a focus on hypothesis-driven development and an experiment-first approach, you'll have the freedom to test and validate your ideas before bringing them to life. Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and other teams to deliver high-impact solutions that drive real business results. 
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, 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.

Xero

Website: http://www.xero.com/

Headquarter Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Employee Count: 1001-5000

Year Founded: 2006

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Accounting ⋅ Billing ⋅ FinTech ⋅ Personal Finance ⋅ SaaS ⋅ Software