Lead Engineer - Inventory

**Overview:** - Role in the Inventory area of Xero, part of a global team focused on uplifting and revitalizing the inventory offering. - Involved in significant legacy stack uplift and coordination with various teams. - Technical lead responsible for assessing feasibility of initiatives and guiding project plans. - Leading complex changes to Xero's Product. - Supporting process enhancement and professional growth of engineers. - Collaborating with team leads and product managers. **Key Responsibilities:** - Guide technical design for software implementation, focusing on architecture principles and engineering practices. - Identify and address technical blockers and waste. - Maintain in-depth system knowledge and development expertise. - Guide quality engineering practices, contribute to quality strategy, and resolve issues. - Contribute to engineering standards and frameworks, apply standards to software and delivery processes. - Proactively maintain, grow, and share knowledge of development technologies. - Champion automation and ensure deployment pipelines are effective. - Advocate for agile and delivery practices, coach and develop others. - Act as incident coordinator in production incidents. - Coach and mentor engineers across multiple disciplines. **Requirements/Skills/Qualifications:** - Expert knowledge in C#/.NET, with exposure to PHP. - Willingness to experiment with new languages and tooling. - Ability to make code design decisions for all teams’ products. - Experience in auditing codebases for security, testability, and ease of change. - Expertise in distributed systems architecture. - Experience in leading discussions on application design and scaling products. - Experience in contributing to new standards and revisions. - Ability to act as incident coordinator in production incidents. - Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers. **Compensation & Benefits:** - Very generous paid leave, including statutory holidays. - Dedicated paid leave for physical and mental wellbeing. - Access to an Employee Assistance Program for mental health care. - Free medical insurance. - Wellbeing and sports programs. - Employee resource groups. - 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers. - Employee Share Plan. - Benefits reflecting human value, including beautiful offices, flexible working, career development. (Note: Specific compensation figures are not provided in the summary.)