Lead Engineer - Inventory Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Remote, NZ Technology Engineering / Permanent / Hybrid Apply for this job Our Purpose At Xero, were 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, were not only making life better for small business, well be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

About the team and role Youll be working in the Inventory area of Xero. We are a fast paced, global team, working to uplift and re-vitialise our inventory offering at Xero. We have engineers in both New Zealand and America, so being open to travel will be key for this role.

We are doing a large uplift in our legacy stack, coordinating with a wide range of other teams within Xero. As our technical lead, youll assess the feasibility of upcoming initiatives and clearly communicate your findings to varied audiences. Youll collaborate with the team to shape or refine project plans, ensuring we are heading in the right direction.

Youll be leading some of the most complex changes to our Xero Product that Xero has seen in years. Beyond project work, youll seek opportunities to enhance our processes and support the professional growth of our engineers. In this role, you wont be on your own.

Youll have support from experienced Principal Engineers and a community of other lead engineers. Youll also work closely with the Team Lead and Product Manager in your team, ensuring that we deliver the right solutions, in the right way, on schedule. What you'll do Create software - Guide technical design to ensure implementation of architecture principles and good engineering practice.

Identify the technical blockers and waste that slow down the team. Work with engineering leadership and delivery teams to identify technical capabilities that need to be grown. Maintain in-depth system knowledge across all system boundaries relating to the teams components as well as hands-on development expertise.

Test software - Guide the quality engineering practices for your team, identifying and resolving challenges to ensure processes and tools are optimised for their context and engineers have the required knowledge and skills. Contribute to and champion Xeros quality strategy and standards. Resolve issues - Recognise and solve for common patterns of failure in the teams delivery practices, preventing future issues by improving skills, processes or tooling.

Measure the cost or value of issues, and often lead incident responses and post-mortems. Engineering standards & frameworks - Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks. Work closely with engineering leadership to apply standards to software and delivery processes.

Continuous improvement - Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xeros software applications. Deliver infrastructure in a p.