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.
Top Skills
What We Do
Xero is a global small business platform with 3.95 million subscribers which includes a core accounting solution, payroll, workforce management, expenses and projects. Xero also has an extensive ecosystem of connected apps and connections to banks and other financial institutions helping small businesses access a range of solutions from within Xero’s open platform to help them run their business and manage their finances.
Why Work With Us
Xero is not like most companies. When you join Xero, you become part of something beautiful —a global community of people who are passionate about making an impact on the world. It’s a place where you can truly be yourself and find success in a way that’s meaningful to you.
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