Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Xero's Small Business Growth Division as a Senior Software Engineer and build reliable, scalable solutions. Contribute directly to our products while helping your team adopt strong development practices. Take ownership of semi-annual/annual outcomes, ensuring successful delivery while improving team effectiveness. Act as a role model for engineering excellence, promoting best practices and guiding the team in adopting effective processes. Provide mentorship and technical guidance, helping teammates develop their skills and grow professionally. Identify and implement enhancements to team workflows, ensuring scalable and efficient delivery of high-quality solutions. Build strong, productive relationships with cross-functional teams to align efforts and achieve shared goals. Xero offers very generous paid leave, paid leave for wellbeing, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, and career development.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Senior Software Engineer , with a track record of delivering high-quality software solutions at scale
• Proficiency in at least one of C#, NodeJS or React, with practical experience in building applications using any of these frameworks
• Deep understanding of the full development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and deployment
• Experience auditing codebases to maintain high standards for security, scalability, and testability, while ensuring code changes are manageable and efficient
• Proficiency in on-call practices and a strong understanding of monitoring and observability tooling for proactively managing and troubleshooting production systems at scale
• Ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including engineers, product managers, and stakeholders
• Skilled in contributing to or facilitating discussions on application design and implementation, with a focus on scaling products effectively
• Demonstrated ability to guide and mentor engineers, fostering growth and excellence within the team while embodying Xero's values

Responsibilities

• Deliver impactful projects : Take ownership of semi-annual/annual outcomes, ensuring successful delivery while improving team effectiveness
• Lead by example: Act as a role model for engineering excellence, promoting best practices and guiding the team in adopting effective processes
• Support team growth: Provide mentorship and technical guidance, helping teammates develop their skills and grow professionally
• Drive improvement: Identify and implement enhancements to team workflows, ensuring scalable and efficient delivery of high-quality solutions
• Foster collaboration: Build strong, productive relationships with cross-functional teams to align efforts and achieve shared goals

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with designing and building modern engineering stacks, with exposure to platforms like AWS being highly beneficial

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
• Free medical insurance
• Wellbeing and sports programmes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working
• Career development