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As an Intermediate Software Engineer at Xero, you'll improve software features, build applications, and support development using various technologies while collaborating in an inclusive team environment.
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Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software
The Senior Software Engineer will enhance Xero's software features, build critical applications, and work with various technologies in a collaborative environment.
Top Skills:
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Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software
As a Lead Engineer at Xero, you'll guide a product team in software development, focusing on technical decision-making and mentoring while working with modern technologies.
Top Skills:
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Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help supercharge small businesses. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
About the team
Our Customer Platforms team builds innovative solutions that simplify complexity and drive informed decision-making across the customer facing platform at Xero.
About the role
As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll contribute towards the user-facing experience of our customer facing website. You'll work in a team focused on building and maintaining revenue generating initiatives, ensuring it is a secure, intuitive, and high-performing gateway for new customers and a seamless experience for existing ones.
Any experience building applications using the following tools and technologies would be a huge plus: React, React Testing Library, Styled Components, Storybook, Jest, NextJS, Java11 or above, AEM/Apache Sling, NodeJS (ES6+), AWS (mainly S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CDK), Akamai (or other CDNs), CI/CD products (TeamCity, Github Actions, AWS Codebuild).
If you're passionate about solving complex problems with a human-centered approach, join us in making life beautiful for small businesses.
What you'll bring:
- Proven experience as Full-Stack Engineer, ideally with hands-on experience across the entire development and implementation lifecycle, delivering software solutions at scale.
- Previous experience with back-end technologies, such as Node.js, including building and maintaining APIs and services.
- Previous experience with in modern JavaScript frameworks, with a strong emphasis on React. A solid understanding of web performance, responsive design, CSS frameworks and Styled Components.
- Exposure to designing and building modern engineering stacks, ideally with hands-on experience working in AWS.
- Understanding of on-call practices and deep understanding of monitoring and observability tooling to proactively manage, troubleshoot, and optimise production systems at scale.
Why Xero?
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 as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family. Health insurance, life insurance, and income protection.
We offer wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value.
You’ll do the best work of your life at Xero!
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