Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Xero and help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will collaborate with other engineers to create and deliver high-quality software, contribute to new or improved customer experiences, and maintain engineering excellence. You will demonstrate leadership in best practices, mentor team members, and contribute to a cross-functional environment. You will focus on automation, data-driven decisions, and resolving issues efficiently. You will also champion agile and delivery practices and participate in recruitment processes. Xero offers a comprehensive benefits package.

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
• 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
• 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
• An 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
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working