Xero
Denver, CO
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Principal Engineer - Payroll Product

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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.


The Principal Engineer will apply their technical craft within the Xero Payroll product.

 

The Payroll team's purpose is to make it easier for small business owners to pay and manage their people. We take the complexity out of Payroll for employers to save them time and ensure that their employees are paid correctly.


What is a Principal Engineer at Xero?


Xero's technology vision is to "be one of the most sustainably excellent software engineering companies in the world."


The Principal Engineer is a pivotal role in achieving this vision. Working across multiple teams, you will use your superior technical acumen and leadership skills to drive software delivery performance and support our engineering teams to thrive in a continuous improvement culture.


What does that look like day to day?


Every day in this role will bring different challenges, but the key areas of your job is to champion engineering practices that will help the delivery team to build quality software and deliver customer value.


Collaboration

- Collaborate with Team Leads, senior developers and quality coaches to define technical practices for the pod

- Establish strong relationships with supporting disciplines such as architecture, security, infrastructure and quality across Xero

- Work closely with pods, coaching/mentoring engineers to make better technical decisions


Technical

- Define ways to measure the maturity of the teams engineering practices

- Seek out, quantify, and collaborate on cross-cutting obstacles that hinder development teams' ability to deliver

- Work with Product Management and Product Architecture to understand solution feasibility and produce high level estimations

- Advocate for metrics collection and informed decision making


Technology/Operations

- Support implementing of new tooling and processes to improve cross-team performance

- Research and explore new technology to solve current and future problems

- Stay connected with the Xero engineering community to ensure we remain connected to Xero’s engineering vision

- Support the Development Manager and Team Leads in recruiting, interviewing and onboarding new team members


What technical experience do you need for this role?


- Experience optimising engineering infrastructure with product development teams (ideally SaaS product development)

- Proven experience in technical leadership on large projects leveraging .NET, JAVA or similar 

- Experience with cloud native technologies across compute, data, eventing and observability

- General Front End Application development experience e.g.JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5, React and/or other MVC/MVVM client-side frameworks such as Angular, Vue

- Experience delivery planning across multiple work streams as well as designing and operating CI/CD pipelines including compliance as code approaches to security, standards and code metrics.

- Solid experience working in Agile teams, specifically facilitating technical discovery & design sessions

- Awareness of software governance across security, privacy, reliability and cost

- Understanding of technical risk and mitigation strategies

- You’ll be an excellent communicator, comfortable presenting and defending ideas in a diverse environment


But why work at Xero?


At Xero, we are rewiring the small business economy and want millions of small businesses to thrive through beautiful software, advice, and connections. We see the value in work-life balance, many of us take full advantage of our flexible working arrangements, so whether you like to get a surf in before work, like to head home in time to pick up the kids or you just like working from the comfort of your own home now and then, we want to support you.


We trust you to build your career to the best of your ability and we will support your hunger to learn with training and career mentorship, to help you flourish. Our facilities and PX teams work hard to give us great workspaces with all the tech company perks so join us and experience our awesome culture!


Xero is continuing to grow and so are the opportunities to join us!


You can choose to perform this role:

- In one of our #beautiful offices

- Flexibly, through a hybrid of in office and remote working styles

- Permanently Remote


As a permanent remote worker at Xero we want to ensure you are getting the same #beautiful employee experience as our in-office Xero’s. Permanent remote Xero’s will benefit from a virtual ergonomic work assessment and funding to assist with the improvement of your at home work setup. Xero will also fund up to 4 trips a year to your most relevant region Xero office. You are part of our #team and we want to see you thrive!




Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.


Please include a cover letter in your application, telling us why you’re a great fit for this position.

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What are Xero Perks + Benefits

Xero Benefits Overview

Xero offers a variety of benefits aimed at helping our employees maintain their physical, financial and mental wellbeing, allowing them to bring their best selves to work each day

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Xero employees are given a day off each year to volunteer in their communities.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Remote work program
Typically, we work from home as needed. During COVID, all employees are working remotely and have access to stipends to access the equipment they need to be successful.
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
42% of Xero's leadership team is female, while our Board of Directors maintains an equal gender balance. Xero was included in Bloomberg's 2020 Gender Equality Index report.
Mandated unconscious bias training
All Xero employees will complete online unconscious bias training during on-boarding
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
The talent and leadership teams at Xero are committed to building diverse talent pipelines that reflect the communities we serve.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Xero allows employees to set aside pre-tax dollars for medical and dependent care expenses. $2,650 annual limit for healthcare FSA
Disability insurance
Xero's long and short term disability plans provide income protection at 60% of annual base salary
Dental insurance
Cigna dental PPO plan
Vision insurance
VSP vision plan
Health insurance
Xero offers a variety of health plans including Cigna HSA, Cigna PPO, and Kaiser HMO for Colorado and California employees
Life insurance
Provided to Xero employees at no cost. Coverage for each employee of 2x annual base salary up to $500,000
Wellness programs
Xero will fund up to $300 annually in employee health reimbursement account to be used toward a health improvement activity including gym membership, mental, physical or financial health
Mental health benefits
Concern EAP benefits for all employees
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Xero will match 100% on the first 3% contributions plus 50% match on next 2% of contributions
Company equity
All Xero employees are granted Restricted Stock Units at a certain percentage of their base salary which vests over a 3 year period
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
26 weeks paid parental leave.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Xero offers 21 days of paid time off, 10 wellness days, as well as 11 paid holidays per calendar year. We also participate in a company wide shut down between Christmas and New Years Day
Paid volunteer time
Xero encourages employees to give back to our communities by providing 8 hours of paid volunteer time per year
Paid holidays
11 paid holidays per calendar year
Paid sick days
Each employee is granted 10 wellness days per year in addition to our generous PTO
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Set aside pre and/or post tax dollars for commute related transit, parking and bike expenses
Company-sponsored outings
Annual holiday party, as well as a summer celebration!
Free snacks and drinks
You find a variety of fruit, chips, nuts, snack bars, sodas and iced tea in the Xero kitchen
Some meals provided
Breakfast each Tuesday and lunch every Thursday from a variety of local vendors
Company-sponsored happy hours
Happy hour starts every Friday at 4!
Fitness stipend
Our monthly health reimbursement plan can be used towards your fitness membership or a variety of other health related wellness programs
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Teams have budget set aside each year to support growth and up-skilling
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

Xero leadership consistently reviews benefits to ensure they are competitive and allow our people to bring their full selves to work each day.

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