Xero is hiring a
Intermediate Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a software engineer at Xero who will develop applications, maintain engineering standards, and contribute to cross-functional environments. The role involves creating, testing, and resolving issues in software, and practicing agile software development.

Requirements

• Experience in the tech we use C#/.Net, React, SQL Server, and AWS
• Ability to debug across a technology stack
• Confident in upgrading tooling and technology underlying products
• Proficient in roll out and maintenance of cloud infrastructure for team’s products
• Able to implement resilient software design patterns
• Able to maintain, update and document team APIs
• Familiar with application and infrastructure security concerns and proactively mitigates issues
• Regularly practices test driven and trunk based development
• Demonstrated ability to respond to production incidents

Responsibilities

• Create software - Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, produce robust high quality and scalable software. Relentlessly automate any manual processes
• Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews
• Test software - Design and automate testing activities that effectively reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and acceptance criteria. Collaborate with the team and understand their own responsibility for quality
• Resolve issues - Triage and solve development and production issues, and be able to quickly track down the root cause. Communicate the impact of the problem to stakeholders in terms of business value, helping to set a priority for the resolution. Actively participate in incident responses
• Engineering standards & frameworks - Maintain knowledge of Xero’s current and emerging engineering standards and practices. Develop and deploy software that meets Xero’s standards
• Continuous improvement - Maintain knowledge of current and emerging development technologies and methodologies

Benefits

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, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, and many other benefits that reflect our human value