Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Xero's team to build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You'll collaborate with others to create and deliver beautiful software to customers faster.

Requirements

• High level of experience in a range of languages and tools including experience in the tech we use C#/.Net, React, SQL Server, and AWS
• 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

Responsibilities

• Create software - Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, develop high quality and scalable software, and coach others to do the same
• Test software - Design and perform sophisticated testing activities that effectively and efficiently reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and quality criteria
• Resolve issues - Efficiently assess the causes and identify solutions for development or production issues, and effectively communicate the impact to stakeholders
• 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

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
• Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Private medical insurance
• Gym passes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working