As a Senior Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain high-quality software, solve complex problems, mentor fellow engineers, and contribute to technical discussions and architectural decisions.
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
About the Ecosystem
Ready to make a huge impact? The Ecosystem is a central and established part of Xero's success, connecting millions of users to a global network of app partners. The engineering function within the Ecosystem is comprised of four teams, each with about six engineers, working together on a shared mission. We're looking to accelerate our pace and foster a culture of innovation and agility as we build powerful new features and capabilities for our platform.
We own the Xero App Store, empower thousands of developers through our developer portal, and we're breaking new ground with embedded applications, a brand new Xero MCP server, and pioneering AI agent integrations. This is your chance to bring your drive and agility to shape major initiatives, take ownership, and help us move faster.
About the Role: Build, Innovate, and Mentor
As a Senior Engineer, you are a crucial part of the team—a builder and a problem-solver at heart. You'll take ownership of complex features and components from design through to delivery. We need experienced engineers who can not only write clean, scalable code but also contribute to technical discussions and help mentor other engineers on the team. If you love tackling challenging technical problems and building high-quality software that millions will use, this is the role for you.
This is a hands-on role where you'll spend your time designing, coding, and collaborating to build beautiful products, all while helping to foster a culture of engineering excellence.
What you'll do:
- Be a hands-on coder: Design, build, and maintain high-quality, scalable software. You'll be actively writing code and contributing to the codebase every day.
- Solve complex problems: Take ownership of challenging technical tasks and see them through to completion.
- Contribute to our technical direction: Participate in technical design discussions and architectural decisions, working with lead and principal engineers to shape our solutions.
- Mentor and support: Share your knowledge and experience with other engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and informal mentorship.
- Partner to deliver: Work in close partnership with product, design, and your engineering team to turn our ambitious roadmap into reality.
- Raise the bar: Champion high standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and security.
What you'll bring:
- Strong capability as a full-stack engineer, with a track record of delivering high-quality, complex software features.
- Proficiency in modern web technologies. Our stack is primarily C# on the backend and TypeScript/React on the frontend. More than specific tool experience, we value your strong engineering fundamentals and your drive to master new technologies as they emerge.
- Solid skills in cloud architecture and system design, with the ability to contribute to building and operating scalable, resilient microservices-based systems on AWS.
- A bias for action and a result-oriented approach. You excel at finding pragmatic solutions and delivering impactful outcomes.
- A passion for helping others succeed. You enjoy sharing your knowledge, mentoring others, and contributing to a positive and collaborative team environment.
- An obsession with improvement. You constantly seek out and champion new tools and approaches—like AI-powered coding—to make yourself and the team more productive.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate technical ideas clearly.
Why Xero?
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. Health insurance, life insurance, and income protection.
We offer 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, and many other benefits that reflect our human value.
You’ll do the best work of your life at Xero!
Top Skills
AWS
C#
React
Typescript
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