Senior Engineer - Android

Summary

Join Xero as a Senior Android Engineer and contribute to the development of mobile applications, focusing on signup flows, in-app purchases, or payments. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams across Australia and New Zealand, working closely with design, marketing, and product teams. This role involves building reliable and scalable app features, improving existing work through research and experimentation, and making crucial architectural and implementation decisions. You will mentor fellow developers and stay updated on the latest technologies. The ideal candidate possesses significant experience in a senior engineering role and a strong technical fluency in Android development.

Requirements

• A technical fluency in Android is essential, especially in the following areas
• Kotlin & Coroutines
• Testing knowledge – including unit testing, etc
• Dependency Injection – XAA heavily relies on DI (Hilt), so I believe this is also a must-have skill
• Jetpack Compose – something we expect candidates to use, as almost all new screens are built with Compose
• Knowledge and experience working with MVVM and clean architecture patterns

Responsibilities

• Continually delivering results through writing code and code reviews
• Lead and/or participate in technical and architectural discussions
• Working in a cross-functional environment, you’ll work with Product, Design & Data peers to design, prototype and implement product features
• Identify opportunities in current technology and architecture to recommend solutions, including tech improvements for stability, monitoring, and fault tolerance
• Provide input when engineers in the team need help, offering technical guidance and mentoring to help them grow and be the best version of themselves
• Keep an ear to the ground in an effort to stay up to date with mobile development technologies; identify and promote opportunities to make use of these technologies within the mobile team

Preferred Qualifications

• You’ll be joining a high-impact team, so previous experience in a senior engineer role is preferred
• An appetite to understand and learn the rest of the stacks (iOS, Backend - preferably C#) is beneficial
• Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers
• Previous exposure to working in a similar product based environment to Xero, with collaboration being a key part of your typical working model

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