Senior Software Engineer -Syft Integration (FTC )

Xero; Manchester; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you'll integrate powerful analytics tools into their ecosystem, creating beautiful and actionable insights from complex data. This fully remote position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to high-quality software solutions while mentoring junior engineers and promoting best practices. With a focus on continuous improvement and a commitment to a strong technical foundation, you'll be part of a forward-thinking environment that values your contributions. Join a company that prioritizes employee wellbeing and offers generous benefits, including flexible working and comprehensive health support, making it the perfect place to advance your career.

Benefits

Generous paid leave

Private medical insurance

Gym passes

Employee Assistance Program

Employee Share Plan

Flexible working hours

Paid parental leave

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Software Engineer delivering high-quality solutions.
• Proficiency in Node.js and React with scalable solution development.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality software and automate manual processes.
• Design and perform testing activities to ensure product quality.
• Resolve development issues and contribute to engineering standards.

Skills

Node.js

React

JavaScript

Software Development

Agile Practices

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Express

Automated Testing Tools

Job description

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.

About the team:

This specific position is pivotal in supporting the integration of Syft Analytics into our ecosystem to accelerate our mission to provide powerful insights. Syft Analytics is a leading global cloud-based reporting, insights, and analytics platform.

About the role:

As an Engineer at Xero, you’ll play a crucial role in building reliable, scalable solutions. You’ll contribute directly to our products while helping your team adopt strong development practices. This is a hands-on, "on the tools" role. You'll play a key role in integrating analytics tools into our ecosystem and building beautiful analytics from the ground up, creating experiences that turn complex data into clear, actionable insights for our customers. We believe that a solid technical foundation and strong growth mindset are the keys to success in Software Engineering. You won’t find a long list of must-have tech requirements below!

This is a fixed term (12 months) position which is fully remote.

What you'll do:

• Create software - Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, develop high quality and scalable software, and coach others to do the same. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews as a role model for giving and receiving feedback.
• Test software - Design and perform sophisticated testing activities that effectively and efficiently reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and quality criteria. Coach team members to enable high quality testing in line with Xero’s quality strategy and standards.
• Resolve issues - Efficiently assess the causes and identify solutions for development or production issues, and effectively communicate the impact to stakeholders. Recognise common patterns of failure to mitigate issues before they reach production. Proactively participate in incident responses and contribute to post-mortems.
• Engineering standards & frameworks - Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks. Work closely with the Lead and Principal Engineers to apply standards to software and delivery processes.
• Continuous improvement - Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications.
• Deliver infrastructure in a production environment - Champion automation of delivery processes. Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively works to prevent customer facing problems.
• Modern software and delivery practices - Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space in order to ensure a consistent approach to ways of working.
• Recruitment - Participate in interviews and recruitment processes.

What you'll bring with you:

• Previous experience as a Senior Software Engineer, with a track record of delivering high-quality software solutions at scale.
• Must be proficient in Node.js (Express) and React, with a demonstrated ability to build scalable and reliable solutions using these technologies.
• Extensive hands-on experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks and backend systems, including full lifecycle ownership of production-level codebases.
• Demonstrated success mentoring junior engineers and establishing technical best practices within teams.

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, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.