Lead Engineer - Test Automation Expert Wellington, NZ / Melbourne, AU / Auckland, NZ / Remote, NZ / Sydney, AU / Remote, AU Technology Engineering / Permanent / Hybrid Apply for this job 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. How youll make an impact Youll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster.

Youll model the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices. Youll undertake software application development on applications in our suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external. Youll contribute to the technical direction of the product group, helping grow our cross functional environment by identifying technical gaps, promoting capability growth, and championing & demonstrating modern principles and practices.

You'll help 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. Youll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems more effectively.

What youll 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 appl.