Principal Engineering

4 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Xero Full time
Principal Engineering - Product & Technology

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About the role:

At Xero, Principal Engineers play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence and innovation across our Product and Technology teams. This role involves building and maintaining robust APIs, leading complex cloud-native projects, and championing engineering best practices for a global platform serving millions of small businesses.

You will contribute to technical vision, mentor engineers, and collaborate on solutions that meet both immediate and strategic goals. You will also guide non-functional design aspects like security, scalability, and performance, while advocating for automation and managing technical debt.

If you are a seasoned technical leader with a proven track record in delivering impactful solutions, explore our Principal Engineer opportunities at Xero.

What you'll bring:

  • Hands-on experience with building and maintaining APIs, including design principles, security, and performance optimization.
  • Experience leading large, complex projects ensuring technical excellence.
  • Technical leadership on cloud-native platforms focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Strong communication skills for engaging with executive stakeholders.
  • Mentorship abilities across engineering levels.
  • Experience with technical vision and engineering best practices.
  • Skills in quantifying and addressing technical debt.
  • Ability to design automated processes for secure and reliable product deployment.
  • Proactive review of delivery and production metrics for improvements.
  • Strong problem-solving skills for complex technical challenges.
  • Commitment to fostering an inclusive, collaborative environment.

Key responsibilities:

  • Mentoring and coaching engineers to develop their potential.
  • Translating architecture into a technical vision and roadmap.
  • Collaborating on engineering practices and standards.
  • Ensuring solutions meet requirements, balancing design goals.
  • Driving engineering principles and adopting new standards or technologies.
  • Guiding non-functional design elements such as security, scalability, and performance.
  • Influencing technical decisions across teams.

Why Xero?

We offer generous paid leave, health and wellbeing benefits, flexible working, career development, employee share plans, and a supportive, inclusive culture. Join us to do the best work of your life.

Additional info:

Seniority level: Not Applicable

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Education and Training

Industry: Software Development

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