Intermediate Software Engineer

Summary

Join Xero's Small Business Growth Division as an Intermediate Software Engineer and contribute to building impactful solutions for small businesses. You'll focus on developing scalable and reliable software, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and upholding engineering excellence. This role involves designing, implementing, and delivering production-ready features, troubleshooting technical challenges, and promoting Xero's engineering standards. You'll work in a supportive team environment, embracing agile methodologies and actively seeking to improve team processes.

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, 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