Senior Software Development Engineer - Data

Location: London

You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster. You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our existing suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external. You’ll help maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero and support your team in building products together. You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems more effectively.
Create software - Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, develop high quality and scalable software, and coach others to do the same. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Test software - Design and perform sophisticated testing activities that effectively reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and quality criteria. Coach team members to enable high quality testing in line with Xero’s quality strategy and standards.
Engineering standards & frameworks - Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks. Work closely with the Lead and Principal Engineers to apply standards to software and delivery processes.
Continuous improvement - Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xero’s software application.
Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively works to prevent customer-facing problems.
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.
High level of experience in a range of languages and tools and experience with the tech we use C#/.Net, React, SQL Server, and AWS.
Able to debug across the entire Xero technology stack to unblock the team.
Highly proficient in the architecture and implementation of distributed systems. Ability to review and coordinate team processes to improve quality and strengthen feedback loops.
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