What you'll do:
- Build Reliable and Performant Solutions: Lead initiatives for the delivery of a 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 teams in building high-quality, reusable components and experiences. Work closely with Product Engineers to seamlessly integrate Design System components into applications.
- Hands-On Development: Build and compose UI components that are accessible, reliable, and performant.
- Estimating, Scoping, and Planning: Contribute to the estimation, scoping, and planning of projects, and provide 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: Maintain a keen eye for accessibility standards. Document usage guides, examples, etc., for easier consumption by teams. Contribute to pipelines, testing, and foster 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, including participating in the internal support for the components.
What you'll bring with you:
- Deep Front-End Expertise: Proficiency in HTML, CSS (including preprocessors or CSS-in-JS), and JavaScript (with modern frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular). Ideally, you'll have some exposure to design systems.
- Strong Component-Based Architecture Knowledge: Proven ability to design, develop, and maintain reusable UI components.
- Commitment to Quality and Testing: Proficiency in unit, integration, and end-to-end testing methodologies and tools (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, Loki). A strong commitment to accessibility (WCAG) standards when building inclusive components.
- Collaboration and Communication: Excellent skills for working effectively with designers, product managers, and other engineers.
- Software Development Practices: Experience with version control (Git), modern software development methodologies like Kanban or Agile, and excellent problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.
- Mentorship and Technical Input: Demonstrated experience in mentoring peers or contributing to technical standards, showing capacity for technical leadership and guidance.
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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
We believe that by simplifying the complex we're not only making life better for small business, we’re helping to create a stronger, more vibrant economy. When you join this team, you’re impacting local communities, on a global scale. Being a Fast Co. Best Workplace for Innovators is a direct reflection of our creative, curious culture.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Join us from home or at one of our beautiful workspaces. Xero has offices in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Singapore, and South Africa.
