Xero is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a Software Engineer position at Xero. The role involves building and managing software to solve engineering problems at scale, contributing to new or improved experiences for customers, maintaining the standard for engineering excellence, and demonstrating leadership on best practices. The software engineer will also be responsible for creating, testing, resolving issues, continuous improvement, delivering infrastructure in a production environment, and modern software and delivery practices. Recruitment is also part of the role.

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

Responsibilities

• Build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale
• Contribute to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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
• 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