As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop scalable software solutions, mentor engineers, and enhance engineering practices, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help supercharge small businesses. 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 Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be a hands-on technical contributor who plays a key role in building and managing software that solves engineering problems at scale. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster.
You’ll undertake software application development on our existing suite of products, contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external. You will demonstrate leadership on best practices, and be a role model and mentor for other team members.
What You'll Do
- Develop high-quality, scalable software. You’ll relentlessly automate any manual processes and contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. You'll be a role model for giving and receiving feedback in code reviews.
- Contribute to maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero and proactively contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks. You'll work closely with Lead and Principal Engineers to apply standards to software and delivery processes.
- Efficiently assess causes and identify solutions for development or production issues , and recognise common patterns of failure to mitigate issues before they reach production. You'll proactively participate in incident responses and contribute to post-mortems.
- Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively works to prevent customer-facing problems. You will join an inclusive cross-functional team and collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering.
- Proactively maintain, grow, and share knowledge of development technologies used in Xero’s software applications. Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space.
What You'll Bring
- Previous experience delivering high-quality software solutions at scale.
- Strong experience in full-stack development with modern technology stacks, demonstrating proficiency in a range of languages and tools, and a high degree of openness to learn new technologies. Experience in our core stack will be highly valuable: Xero's new codebases often use a microservice written in C# on .NET, utilising a variety of AWS services, running in a Docker container orchestrated by Kubernetes, and accessed by SPA written in React with TypeScript.
- Highly proficient in the architecture and implementation of distributed systems. Ability to refactor complex, monolithic systems into scalable, resilient components.
- Deep understanding of the full development lifecycle (design, implementation, testing, and deployment). Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling and on-call practices for proactively managing production systems.
- Proven ability to contribute to internal ecosystems, building SDKs and libraries to enable other teams to integrate with their products. Experience or interest in utilising AI tools and technologies to drive innovation and efficiency.
- Experience or strong interest in utilising AI tools and technologies to drive innovation and efficiency.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach engineers, fostering growth, and effectively collaborating in a cross-functional team environment.
- Ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences.
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, 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, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset.
Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.
Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.
Top Skills
.Net
AWS
C#
Docker
Kubernetes
React
Typescript
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