What you'll do:
- Stay hands-on: Dedicate at least 75% of your time to technical tasks, including code and design reviews, technical kick-offs, legacy code exploration, proof-of-concept development, and incident response.
- Influence: Use your experience to influence the technical direction for the team, mentor team members, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
- Drive innovation: Encourage experimentation and the adoption of new technologies to improve our products and processes.
- Collaborate effectively: Work closely with martech managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Solve complex problems: Tackle challenging technical problems and find innovative solutions.
What you'll bring:
- Proven experience as a Senior Engineer or Technical Lead; you'll come with hands-on experience across the entire development and implementation lifecycle, delivering software solutions at scale.
- Proficiency in back-end technologies, such as Node.js, including building and maintaining APIs and services.
- Proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks, with a strong emphasis on React. A solid understanding of web performance, responsive design, CSS frameworks and Styled Components.
- Proven experience designing and building modern engineering stacks, ideally with hands-on experience working in AWS.
- Proven experience with on-call practices and deep understanding of monitoring and observability tooling to proactively manage, troubleshoot, and optimise production systems at scale.
- Proven skills as a technical leader, including but not limited to: mentoring other engineers, auditing codebases, driving engineering standards, and breaking down problems into digestible chunks.
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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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