About the team and role
In Subscription & Billing, we collect over a billion dollars of revenue every year. Our vision is to be the billing product for Xero that scales quickly, integrates easily, enables insights while delighting customers with a beautiful self service experience.
We're looking for an Associate Engineer to join our team and be based either in Wellington or Auckland.
What you'll do
- Create software - Develop robust high quality software with guidance from senior engineers.
- Test software - Design and perform testing activities that reveal specific quality levels of a product in relation to identified risks and acceptance criteria.
- Resolve issues - Effectively triage and resolve issues identified during the development lifecycle or in production, and assist with the root cause analysis. May justify the significance of a problem to stakeholders in technical terms.
- Engineering standards & frameworks - Develop and deploy software in accordance with Xero standards.
- Continuous improvement - Grow knowledge of current and emerging development technologies and methodologies. Understand the competencies of the role and work through a development plan.
- Deliver infrastructure in a production environment - Contribute to automation of delivery processes, monitoring and alerting. Maintain build & deployment infrastructure with guidance.
- Modern software and delivery practices - Practice agile software development. Proactively work to improve team processes.
What you'll bring with you
- At least 1-year of professional work experience.
- Proficient in using a primary language and ecosystem to maintain and extend the team's products. We use .NET/C# for our backend and React for frontend.
- Confidence in debugging and resolving locally.
- Able to regularly make minor code design decisions.
- Experience in maintaining team's APIs and client code.
- Familiarity with DevOps practises including CI/CD, containerization, configuration, monitoring, alerting. We primarily use AWS.
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What We Do
Xero is small business accounting software that provides a platform on which businesses can build a fully integrated solution. It’s designed to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. Xero minimises tedious admin by automating routine tasks, delivers valuable insights when needed, and brings together business data, trusted advisors, and powerful apps in one intuitive platform. By alleviating pain points, Xero empowers small business owners to supercharge their business, simplifying the complex and freeing up time from manual admin so they can focus on what really matters to build the business they’ve always envisaged.
Why Work With Us
Xero is a human-centric organization where you’ll have a tangible impact on the success of small businesses and their communities, globally. Our team of energised, forward-thinkers work to make life better for our customers and each other every day. We’re also always committed to supporting you with a flexible environment.
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