Senior Engineer - API

Summary

Join one of Xero's dedicated mobile app teams as a Senior Backend Engineer. You will either own the global signup flow, handling in-app subscriptions and purchases, or work on invoicing and contacts management, focusing on US market functionality. The role involves collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams across Australia and New Zealand, including design, marketing, and product. You will build and manage scalable software, collaborate on software development, maintain engineering excellence, demonstrate leadership, and contribute to a cross-functional environment. You will make architectural and implementation decisions, offer technical guidance, and mentor fellow developers. The ideal candidate is a strong advocate for TDD and automated tooling, proficient in CI/CD, and experienced in developing secure, performant, and scalable software.

Requirements

• Strong advocate and teacher of TDD and automated tooling to safely and repeatedly release code
• Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling
• Able to make major code design decisions for individual products
• High coding standards and an emphasis on testing
• Experience in developing software that is secure, performant and scalable
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Experience using and keeping up with latest .NET development trends
• C# and .NET proficiency
• Experience working with AWS and Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale
• Work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster
• Undertake software application development on applications in our existing suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external
• Help maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero and support your team members in building products together
• Demonstrate leadership on best practices, and be a role model and mentor for other team members
• Contribute to our cross functional environment by working towards the same objectives, using modern principles and practices
• Be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to automate
• Be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems more effectively
• Create software – Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, develop high-quality and scalable software, and coach others to do the same
• Relentlessly automate any manual processes
• Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach
• Participate in code reviews as a role model for giving and receiving feedback
• Test software – Design and perform sophisticated testing activities that effectively and efficiently reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and quality criteria
• Coach team members to enable high-quality testing in line with Xero’s quality strategy and standards
• Resolve issues – Efficiently assess the causes and identify solutions for development or production issues, and effectively communicate the impact to stakeholders
• Recognise common patterns of failure to mitigate issues before they reach production
• Proactively participate in incident responses and contribute to post-mortems
• Engineering standards & frameworks – Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks
• Work closely with the Lead and Principal Engineers to apply standards to software and delivery processes
• Continuous improvement – Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications
• Deliver infrastructure in a production environment – Champion automation of delivery processes
• Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively works to prevent customer-facing problems
• Modern software and delivery practices – Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space in order to ensure a consistent approach to ways of working
• Recruitment – Participate in interviews and recruitment processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience enabling mobile teams from an API perspective is a bonus
• And previous experience developing iOS or Android software is an additional bonus

Benefits

• Very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing
• 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