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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.

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 members

in building products together. You’ll demonstrate leadership on best practices, and be a role model

and mentor for other team members. You’ll contribute to our cross functional environment by

working towards the same objectives, using modern principles and practices.

You’ll be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to

automate. You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero

customers' problems more effectively.

What you'll do

• 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. Participate in code reviews as a role model for giving and receiving feedback.
• Test software - Design and perform sophisticated testing activities that effectively and efficiently 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.
• Resolve issues - Efficiently assess the causes and identify solutions for development or production issues, and effectively communicate the impact to stakeholders. Recognise common patterns of failure to mitigate issues before they reach production. Proactively participate in incident responses and contribute to post-mortems.
• Continuous improvement - Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications.
• Deliver infrastructure in a production environment - Champion automation of delivery processes. 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.
• Recruitment - Participate in interviews and recruitment processes.

What you'll bring

• High level of experience in a range of languages and tools including experience in the tech we use C#/.Net, React, SQL Server, and AWS.
• Proven ability to contribute to internal ecosystems, build SDKs and libraries to enable other teams to integrate with their products.
• Able to debug across the entire Xero technology stack to unblock the team.
• Able to make major code design decisions for individual products.
• Highly proficient in the architecture and implementation of distributed systems. Ability to refactor complex, monolithic systems into scalable, resilient components.
• Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
• Strong advocate and teacher of TDD and automated tooling to safely and repeatedly release code. Ability to review and coordinate team processes to improve quality and strengthen feedback loops.

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, 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, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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