Software Engineer

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 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. You’ll contribute to our

cross functional environment by working towards the same objectives, using modern principles and

practices.

You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will 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, 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 problems.
• Modern software and delivery practices - Practice agile software development. Occasionally facilitate agile ceremonies. Proactively work to improve team processes.

What you’ll bring with you

• Experience with our tech stack; Java, AWS, MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Ability to debug across a technology stack
• Confident in upgrading tooling and technology underlying products
• Proficient in roll out and maintenance of cloud infrastructure for team's products.
• Able to implement resilient software design patterns
• Able to maintain, update and document team APIs
• Familiar with application and infrastructure security concerns and proactively mitigates issues
• Regularly practices test driven and trunk based development
• Demonstrated ability to respond to production incidents