What you'll do:
- Build Reliable and Performant Solutions: Lead initiatives for the delivery of large, consistent and scalable Design System. Build, maintain, and improve the organisation’s design system, including reusable UI components, patterns, and guidelines
- Collaboration: Partner with Design and Accessibility in building high-quality, reusable components and experiences. Work closely with Product engineers to integrate design system components into applications seamlessly.
- Hands-On Development: Building and composing ui components that are accessible, reliable and performant.
- Estimating, Scoping, and Planning: Contribute to the estimation, scoping, and planning of projects, input into defining the team's strategy and roadmap. Work closely with design management, leadership, and engineering teams to deliver impactful workstreams.
- Standards, Tooling and Documentation: Keep a keen eye for accessibility standards. Document usage guides, examples etc for easier consumption by teams. Contribute to pipelines, testing and having a high quality mindset.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships with cross-functional teams, including product management and leadership, to drive the success of engineering initiatives.
- Operational: Ensure operational excellence across the product lifecycle, being part of the internal Support for the components.
What you'll bring with you:
- Deep front-end expertise: HTML, CSS (and preprocessors/CSS-in-JS), JavaScript (modern frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular).
- Strong component-based architecture knowledge: Designing, developing, and maintaining reusable UI components.
- Proficiency in testing: Unit, integration, and end-to-end testing methodologies and tools. e.g. Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, Loki.
- Commitment to accessibility (WCAG): Building inclusive and accessible components.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills: Working effectively with designers, product managers, and other engineers.
- Experience with version control (Git) and documentation
- Proven experience (5+ years) in front-end development, ideally with some exposure to design systems
- Problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Mentorship and technical leadership potential
- Experience in modern software development methodologies like Kanban or Agile
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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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