Senior Software Engineer -Syft Integration (FTC )

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Senior Software Engineer - Syft Integration (FTC), remote, UK

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Client:

Xero

Location:

remote, UK, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

938c677064cb

Job Views:

9

Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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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 businesses, but also building a stronger economy that can change the world.

About the team: This 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. We believe that a solid technical foundation and a growth mindset are keys to success in Software Engineering. This is a fixed-term (12 months) position which is fully remote.

What you'll do

1. 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 manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews as a role model for feedback.
2. Test software - Design and perform testing activities that reveal product quality across risk areas and quality criteria. Coach team members to enable high-quality testing in line with Xero’s standards.
3. Resolve issues - Assess causes and identify solutions for development or production issues, communicate impacts to stakeholders, recognize failure patterns to mitigate issues, participate in incident responses, and contribute to post-mortems.
4. Engineering standards & frameworks - Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks. Work with Lead and Principal Engineers to apply standards.
5. Continuous improvement - Maintain, grow, and share knowledge of development technologies used in Xero’s software applications.
6. Deliver infrastructure in production - Automate delivery processes. Support engineers to ensure software runs as expected and proactively prevent customer-facing problems.
7. Modern software and delivery practices - Promote agile and delivery practices, coaching others to ensure consistent ways of working.
8. Recruitment - Participate in interviews and recruitment processes.

What you'll bring with you

1. Experience as a Senior Software Engineer, delivering high-quality software solutions at scale.
2. Proficiency in (Express) and React, with ability to build scalable and reliable solutions.
3. Hands-on experience with modern JavaScript frameworks and backend systems, including full lifecycle ownership of production codebases.
4. Experience mentoring junior engineers and establishing best practices within teams.

Why Xero? Offering generous paid leave, mental health support, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave, an Employee Share Plan, flexible working, and more — reflecting our human values. Join us to do the best work of your life at Xero.