The Senior Engineer will design scalable microservices, mentor junior engineers, tackle complex challenges, and advocate for best practices in DevOps and CI/CD.
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. 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.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Architect: Design and implement highly scalable and resilient documents domain microservices using C#, .NET, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
- Innovate: Develop and champion new approaches to document ingestion, processing, and data extraction, pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
- Collaborate: Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver exceptional user experiences that simplify financial management for our customers.
- Mentor: Guide and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning, growth, and engineering excellence within the team.
- Problem-Solve: Tackle complex technical challenges, debug across the entire Xero technology stack, and implement effective solutions.
- Optimize: Refactor complex systems into scalable, resilient components, ensuring high performance and reliability.
- Champion: Advocate for best practices in DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing, driving continuous improvement within the team.
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of experience in building, delivering and maintaining highly scalable production systems using a diverse range of tools and technologies across the full stack of our products.
- High level of experience in a range of languages and tools. Proficiency in C#, .NET, Docker, Kubernetes, New Relic and AWS.
- Able to diagnose and resolve complex issues across the legacy applications/technologies to unblock the team.
- Create and update technical documentation for existing and new systems, including architecture diagrams, data flows to improve maintainability and knowledge sharing.
- Able to make major code and architectural design decisions for individual products and services.
- Able to take ownership of and drive high impacting / large scale initiatives within the team.
- Highly proficient in the architecture and implementation of distributed systems.
- Ability to refactor complex, monolithic systems into scalable, resilient components.
- Proficient with DevOps and CI/CD concepts and tooling.
- Strong advocate of the testing pyramid and automated tooling to safely and frequently release code.
- Ability to review and coordinate team processes to improve quality and strengthen feedback loops.
Why Xero?
Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that. Our human-first culture of respect, fairness, and inclusion is what helps Xeros thrive and work and beyond, and that includes our candidates. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience, but you could be just the right person for this role. If you are excited about working at Xero, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.
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 and dental reimbursement with vision allowances, a healthcare spending account, fertility and family forming financial support, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with shared meals, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
Top Skills
.Net
AWS
C#
Docker
Kubernetes
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