Job Description
Benefits
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Parental leave
Health insurance
Annual leave
Life insurance
Employee assistance program
Full job description
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.
As an Intermediate Engineer, you'll be a hands-on contributor, helping to build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will collaborate with other Xeros in a cross-functional environment to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster. You will undertake software application development on our suite of products, contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external.
What You'll Do
Produce robust, high-quality, and scalable software while caring deeply about customer problems and technical excellence. You'll 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. You'll 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. You will triage and solve development and production issues, quickly tracking down the root cause. You'll 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.
What You'll Bring
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, utilising a variety of AWS services, running in a Docker container orchestrated by Kubernetes, and 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 and 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. Communicate with the wider team appropriately, focusing on timeliness and good quality conversations.
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!
Pulled from the full job description
Parental leave
Health insurance
Annual leave
Life insurance
Employee assistance program
Full job description
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.
As an Intermediate Engineer, you'll be a hands-on contributor, helping to build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will collaborate with other Xeros in a cross-functional environment to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster. You will undertake software application development on our suite of products, contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external.
What You'll Do
Produce robust, high-quality, and scalable software while caring deeply about customer problems and technical excellence. You'll 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. You'll 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. You will triage and solve development and production issues, quickly tracking down the root cause. You'll 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.
What You'll Bring
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, utilising a variety of AWS services, running in a Docker container orchestrated by Kubernetes, and 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 and 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. Communicate with the wider team appropriately, focusing on timeliness and good quality conversations.
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!
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Intermediate Software Engineer position is now open for candidates interested in the Software Developer Jobs sector. This role in Sydney offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Software Developer Jobs is a plus.
