Intermediate Software Engineer

Summary

Join Xero's Small Business Growth Division as an Intermediate Software Engineer and contribute to building scalable, reliable software solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, uphold engineering excellence, troubleshoot technical challenges, and contribute to Xero's engineering standards and practices. This role requires experience in software development, proficiency in C#, NodeJS, or React, and a solid understanding of the development lifecycle. You will be responsible for creating high-quality software, collaborating with teams, upholding engineering excellence, troubleshooting technical challenges, and contributing to Xero's engineering standards and practices. Xero offers a range of benefits, including generous paid leave, dedicated paid leave for wellbeing, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programs, 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.

Requirements

• Experience in software development, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions
• Proficiency in at least one of C#, NodeJS or React, with practical experience in building applications using any of these frameworks
• Proven ability to independently design, implement, and deliver production-ready features while debugging complex issues and maintaining application stability in a commercial environment
• A solid understanding of the development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, and deployment
• Familiarity with on-call duties, monitoring and observability tooling, including running systems in production at scale
• A collaborative mindset, with excellent communication skills to work effectively with team members and stakeholders
• Problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex challenges into manageable solutions
• A growth mindset, eager to learn and improve while contributing to a supportive team environment

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality, scalable software that addresses customer needs and drives business growth
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and to implement features
• Uphold engineering excellence by driving best practices in coding, testing, and deployment
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges to maintain system stability and performance
• Contribute to and promote Xero's engineering standards and practices
• Embrace agile methodologies and actively seek to improve team processes

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with modern development tools and practices, with exposure to cloud platforms like AWS being a bonus

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, free medical insurance, 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