Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.
At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.
About the team
The Bills Product team is responsible for a core feature that helps a large portion of our customers create, edit, approve, and manage their bills and payments. We handle billions of documents every month, combining innovation with a commitment to moving quickly and safely. The team is made up of thoughtful and collaborative engineers, designers, and product owners who work hard, enjoy what they do, and head home at the end of the day.
As a Lead Engineer (Tech Lead) at Xero, you’ll play a key role in one of our product teams. This is a hands-on role where you’ll balance technical expertise with strategic thinking, guiding the team through complex technical decisions and collaborations with adjacent teams. Day to day, you’ll provide mentorship and coaching to ensure best practices in delivery, testing, and performance.
This role also offers a clear pathway to grow into positions such as Principal Engineer or Architect, as you demonstrate the ability to inspire and lead the broader organization toward engineering excellence
Why Xero?
Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that. Our human-first culture of respect, fairness, and inclusion is what helps Xeros thrive and work and beyond, and that includes our candidates. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience, but you could be just the right person for this role. If you are excited about working at Xero, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.
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 and dental reimbursement with vision allowances, a healthcare spending account, fertility and family forming financial support, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with shared meals, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.