Intermediate Software Engineer

About Xero

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.

Job Summary

You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our suite of Products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external. You’ll maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, continuing to develop your knowledge and skills, and supporting your team members in building products together.

Key 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 issues.