Hybrid Intermediate Software Engineer

at Xero

• Job title: Intermediate Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, React, TypeScript, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Auckland, New Zealand

Responsibilities

• Produce robust, high-quality, and scalable software while caring deeply about customer problems and technical excellence
• Relentlessly automate any manual processes and contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach
• Maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, developing your knowledge and skills, and supporting your team members
• Deploy software that meets Xero's current and emerging engineering standards and practices
• Design and automate testing activities to reveal product quality across a range of risk areas
• Triage and solve development and production issues, quickly tracking down the root cause
• Actively participate in incident responses and communicate the problem's business impact to stakeholders
• Practice agile software development and occasionally facilitate agile ceremonies
• Proactively work to improve team processes
• Maintain and monitor delivery processes
• Ensure all software is running as expected and proactively work to prevent customer-facing problems
• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging development technologies and methodologies
• Develop expertise in one or more programming languages and ecosystem specific technologies
• Mentor people under the guidance of a Senior Engineer and People Lead

Requirements

• Previous experience delivering high-quality software solutions at scale
• Proficient use of one or more programming languages and tools
• Experience in our core stack will be highly valuable: Xero's new codebases often use a microservice written in C# on .NET
• Experience with AWS services, running in a Docker container orchestrated by Kubernetes
• Accessed by SPA written in React with TypeScript
• Experience or strong interest in utilising AI tools and technologies to drive innovation and efficiency
• Developed a specialisation in one or more specific technologies or areas of the development stack
• Ability to debug across a technology stack
• Able to implement resilient software design patterns
• Proficient in the roll-out and maintenance of cloud infrastructure for team's products
• Familiar with application and infrastructure security concerns and proactively mitigates issues
• Demonstrated ability to respond to production incidents
• Confident in upgrading tooling and technology underlying products
• Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and the team

Benefits

• Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing
• Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Free medical insurance
• Wellbeing and sports programmes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working
• Career development