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. Youll be on the forefront of these communications, coordinating 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 across 5 teams.

In this role, you wont be on your own. Youll help lead Lead Engineers and youll have support from a community of other Principal Engineers. Youll also work closely with the Engineering Manager, Head of Product, Team Leads and Product Managers, ensuring that we deliver the right solutions, in the right way, on schedule.

What you'll do Create software - Work on initiatives that span multiple teams to improve how Xero creates and delivers software. Youll guide engineering practices of teams, helping them achieve product goals via world-class engineering techniques. Advocate for the adoption of new technology and tooling to support product requirements.

Guide teams in defining and implementing SLOs. Ensure security and data guidelines are implemented. Lead by example - Design and author beautiful code, driving proof of concepts and solving hard technical problems, whilst bringing along those around you on the journey.

Test software - Promote the quality engineering strategy and standards for Xero, and support teams in evolving their practices and skills to be effective and compliant. Identify and implement initiatives that lift the quality capabilities of Xeros engineering teams. Energise the community of practice for quality.

Resolve issues - Focus on systemic and strategic prevention of issues by implementing practices and tooling that make world class engineering easy, and limit the scope for failure either during the development lifecycle or in production. Engineering standards & frameworks - Be involved with the creation and promotion of Xero wide as well as portfolio level standards and frameworks. Research industry best practice and implement as appropriate in the context of Xero.

Ensure teams needs and feedback is represented in upcoming standards. Continuous improvement - Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xeros software applications. Deliver infrastructure in a production environment.