Senior Engineer, Mobile

Summary

Join Xero and develop software for mobile products on the Apple iOS platform, driving continuous product improvement and maintaining engineering excellence. You will create and test high-quality, scalable software, resolve development or production issues, and contribute to engineering standards and frameworks. Responsibilities include championing automation, coaching team members, and participating in recruitment. Success requires living Xero's values, communicating effectively, building relationships, and demonstrating a growth mindset. You will innovate, collaborate, and engage in self-learning to stay current with iOS development trends.

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
• An eye for detail and passion for good UI/UX
• Expert command of Xcode IDE
• 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 iOS development trends
• Swift proficiency
• Knowledge and experience working with MVVM and clean architecture patterns

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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 behaviours
• Communication skills – Proactively share information, actively solicit feedback, manage and facilitate communication if needed
• Build relationships – Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and team
• Be seen as a key 'go to' person for advice
• Growth mindset – Understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work
• Coach and provide feedback to others on development plans
• Innovation and delivery – Proactively innovate and deliver technology in a team and solve customer problems through software
• Coaching and mentorship – Teach small groups of engineers and contribute to Xero's shared knowledge base
• Work collaboratively – Help individuals resolve difficult problems with empathy, exchange ideas, demonstrate conflict management skills
• Self-learning – Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies relevant to Xero’s engineering environment
• Stay up to date with iOS and other Apple development technologies, and identify and promote opportunities to make use of these technologies within the mobile team