Senior Engineer, Accounting Platform

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.
• Recruitment - Participate in interviews and recruitment processes.

How You'll Do It

• Live Xero’s vision and values- Keep Xero’s vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and actions. Communicate and help others understand the importance of the vision and values. Translate the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviors.
• Communication skills - Communicate with the wider team appropriately, focusing on timeliness and good quality conversations.
• Build relationships - Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and team.
• Growth mindset - Understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work.
• Innovation and delivery- Develop a track record of innovating and delivering technology in a team and solving customer’s problems through software.
• Coaching and mentorship - Mentor people under guidance of Senior Engineer & People Lead.
• Work collaboratively - Work with others to achieve a good outcome using a working style that suits the problem at hand.
• Self-learning - Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies relevant to Xero’s engineering environment.

What You'll Bring With You

• High level of experience in a range of languages and tools (C#, .net, React, Typescript, Redux, etc.); Full Stack Engineer is ideal.
• 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.