Senior Engineer

Summary

Join Xero as a Senior Engineer and contribute to building high-quality, scalable software for small businesses. This role involves creating and testing software, resolving issues, and maintaining engineering standards. You will collaborate with the team, participate in agile development, and mentor junior engineers. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in various programming languages and tools, a strong understanding of distributed systems, and a commitment to continuous improvement. This position offers a competitive salary, generous paid leave, comprehensive benefits, and flexible working arrangements. The role may be remote, preferably in the San Francisco/Bay Area, Los Angeles, or Denver areas, and requires part-time availability.

Requirements

• High level of experience in a range of languages and tools (C#, .net, React, Typescript, Redux, etc.); Full Stack Engineer is ideal
• Proven ability to contribute to internal ecosystems, build SDKs and libraries to enable other teams to integrate with their products
• Able to debug across the entire Xero technology stack to unblock the team
• Able to make major code design decisions for individual products
• Highly proficient in the architecture and implementation of distributed systems
• Ability to refactor complex, monolithic systems into scalable, resilient components
• Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling
• Strong advocate and teacher of TDD and automated tooling to safely and repeatedly release code
• Ability to review and coordinate team processes to improve quality and strengthen feedback loops
• $179,500 - $219,400 a year

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
• Develop expertise in one or more programming languages and ecosystem specific technologies
• Deliver infrastructure in a production environment- Maintain and monitor delivery processes
• Ensure all software is running as expected and proactively work to prevent customer facing problems
• Modern software and delivery practices- Practice agile software development
• Occasionally facilitate agile ceremonies
• Proactively work to improve team processes
• Recruitment - Participate in interviews and recruitment processes
• Live Xero’s vision and values- Keep Xero’s vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and actions
• Communicate and help others understand the importance of the vision and values
• Translate the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviors
• Communication skills - Communicate with the wider team appropriately, focusing on timeliness and good quality conversations
• Build relationships - Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and team
• Growth mindset - Understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work
• Innovation and delivery- Develop a track record of innovating and delivering technology in a team and solving customer’s problems through software
• Coaching and mentorship - Mentor people under guidance of Senior Engineer & People Lead
• Work collaboratively - Work with others to achieve a good outcome using a working style that suits the problem at hand
• Self-learning - Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies relevant to Xero’s engineering environment

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
• Employee resource groups
• Wellbeing programming and allowances
• Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
• Fertility and family forming financial support
• 401k contribution matching
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices with snacks and break areas
• Flexible working
• Career development and many other benefits that reflect our human value