Software Engineer

Summary

Join Xero as an Engineer and collaborate with a team to build and deliver high-quality software. You will create and test software applications, resolve issues, and maintain engineering standards. Responsibilities include designing and automating testing, troubleshooting production issues, and contributing to technical solutions. You will need proficiency in .NET/C#, React, and AWS, along with experience in cloud infrastructure and resilient software design. Xero offers generous paid leave, mental and physical wellbeing support, private medical insurance, and other benefits.

Requirements

• Proficient with the stack we use; .net/C#, React, AWS
• Ability to debug across a technology stack
• Confident in upgrading tooling and technology underlying products
• Proficient in roll out and maintenance of cloud infrastructure for team's products
• Able to implement resilient software design patterns
• Able to maintain, update and document team APIs
• Familiar with application and infrastructure security concerns and proactively mitigates issues
• Regularly practices test driven and trunk based development
• Demonstrated ability to respond to production incidents

Responsibilities

• Create software - Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, produce robust high quality and scalable software. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews
• Test software - Design and automate testing activities that effectively reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and acceptance criteria. Collaborate with the team and understand their own responsibility for quality
• Resolve issues - Triage and solve development and production issues, and be able to quickly track down the root cause. Communicate the impact of the problem to stakeholders in terms of business value, helping to set a priority for the resolution. Actively participate in incident responses
• Engineering standards & frameworks - Maintain knowledge of Xero’s current and emerging engineering standards and practices. Develop and deploy software that meets Xero's standards
• Continuous improvement - Maintain knowledge of current and emerging development technologies and methodologies. Develop expertise in one or more programming languages and ecosystem specific technologies
• Deliver infrastructure in a production environment - Maintain and monitor delivery processes. Ensure all software is running as expected and proactively work to prevent customer facing problems
• Modern software and delivery practices - Practice agile software development. Occasionally facilitate agile ceremonies. Proactively work to improve team 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
• And many other benefits that reflect our human value