Lead the Identity & Auth Team to enhance secure access, mentor engineers, and improve architectural vision and implementation practices across Xero's systems.
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re 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, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
Xero’s Identity & Auth Team looks after the Identity, Authentication and Authorisation experiences at Xero, with a purpose in a building reliable and low friction access to the right products and services for Xero’s customers, partners & engineers. We support both external customer experiences (e.g. login and multi-factor authentication pages), and internal engineering customers (e.g. authentication and authorisation (authz) platforms).
The role
Principal engineer for this area is a role with high impact opportunity. Identity's position within the business means this role has scope to affect change that impacts all Xero Customers and engineering teams. This includes areas like supporting the long term stability and architectural vision for this domain, providing guidance on domain team's auth approach for major business initiatives and ensuring Xero keeps pace with industry Authentication and Authorisation quality expectations. Though identity and Auth expertise is a plus for any candidates, we are very open to those with a desire and ability to rapidly upskill in the needed domains.
What you'll do
- Technical coaching and mentoring our engineers to reach their full potential
- Assist the teams to contribute to and translate architecture into a technical vision and roadmap across the domain and then assist in implementing that vision over time
- Collaborate with Architects and various organisational platforms, to deliver on best engineering practices
- Work with our teams to create solutions while meeting requirements and balancing the goals and constraints of current solution design with desired end state with the responsibility for ensuring the right tool/framework/technique is used for the right job
- Championing and driving engineering principles and practices including assisting in the implementation of new standards, technologies or methodologies
- Provide guidance on non-functional design elements in solutions including security, scalability and performance, monitoring and alerting, analytics, documentation and quality
- Guide and influence technical related decisions across the teams
What you'll bring with you
- Track record of developing software that is secure, performant and scalable
- A passion for coaching and mentoring developers
- Ability to influence and lead engineers to a great outcome
- Experience working on cloud infrastructure platforms
- Capable of architecting, designing and implementing customer focused software solutions
Why Xero?
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. Our goal is to make sure you feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.
At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.
Top Skills
Cloud Infrastructure
Software Development
Xero Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
Our office is in the heart of the Sydney CBD with views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. We're just over by Wynyard Park so it's easy to get to.
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