Hybrid Salesforce Engineer: Apex, LWC & AI-Driven Platform

Xero Limited; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Xero Limited is seeking an experienced software engineer to deliver well-structured Salesforce features across the platform and connected sales tools. You will connect each feature to customer outcomes, using data, insights, and AI tools to balance speed and engineering quality.

You will mentor peers, contribute to incident response, and ensure reliable production deployments while improving engineering practices and system scalability.

Qualifications

• Experience developing software using Apex, LWC, SOQL and declarative Salesforce tools.
• Practical approach to AI in feature development, debugging, and log analysis.
• Deep expertise in Salesforce areas such as Sales Cloud, CPQ, Data Cloud, or integrations.
• Experience building and maintaining REST APIs and platform event integrations.
• Familiarity with source control and deployment tooling like Salesforce CLI, and CI pipelines.
• Proven track record handling production incidents and root-cause investigations using TDD and trunk-based development.
• Strong stakeholder communication, ability to explain technical concepts and align across functions.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver Salesforce features using Apex, LWC, and declarative tools.
• Mentor team members and contribute to incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Set up production monitoring, SLOs, error handling, sandbox refreshes and release deployments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable, high-quality platform solutions.

Skills

Apex / LWC / SOQL

AI in development

Sales Cloud / CPQ / Data Cloud

REST APIs / platform events

Source control & CI

Incident response & TDD

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Salesforce CLI

Flows

Git

REST API tooling

Job description

Xero Limited is seeking an experienced software engineer to deliver well-structured Salesforce features across the platform and connected sales tools. You will connect each feature to customer outcomes, using data, insights, and AI tools to balance speed and engineering quality.

You will mentor peers, contribute to incident response, and ensure reliable production deployments while improving engineering practices and system scalability.