Software Engineer

Xero; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero is seeking an Engineer to develop and deliver high-quality software solutions. You will engage in software application development, testing, and maintaining engineering standards while working in a collaborative environment. The role emphasizes quality-first approaches, automation, and continuous improvement, and offers a variety of generous benefits for employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Generous paid leave

Employee Assistance Program

Private medical insurance

Gym passes

Flexible working

26 weeks paid parental leave

Employee Share Plan

Qualifications

• Proficient with .net/C#, React, and AWS.
• Able to implement resilient software design patterns.
• Confident in upgrading tooling and technology.

Responsibilities

• Create robust, high-quality software focusing on customer problems.
• Design and automate testing activities for quality.
• Triage and resolve development and production issues.

Skills

.net/C#

React

AWS

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.

As an Engineer at Xero, you’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster.

You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our suite of Products (including

new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external.

You’ll maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, continuing to develop your knowledge

and skills, and supporting your team members in building products together. You’ll contribute to our

cross functional environment by working towards the same objectives, using modern principles and

practices.

What you’ll do

• Create software - Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, produce robust high quality and scalable software. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews.
• Test software - Design and automate testing activities that effectively reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and acceptance criteria. Collaborate with the team and understand their own responsibility for quality.
• Resolve issues - Triage and solve development and production issues, and be able to quickly track down the root cause. Communicate the impact of the problem to stakeholders in terms of business value, helping to set a priority for the resolution. Actively participate in incident responses.
• Engineering standards & frameworks - Maintain knowledge of Xero’s current and emerging engineering standards and practices. Develop and deploy software that meets Xero's standards.
• Continuous improvement - Maintain knowledge of current and emerging development technologies and methodologies. Develop expertise in one or more programming languages and ecosystem specific technologies.
• Deliver infrastructure in a production environment - Maintain and monitor delivery processes. Ensure all software is running as expected and proactively work to prevent customer facing problems.
• Modern software and delivery practices - Practice agile software development. Occasionally facilitate agile ceremonies. Proactively work to improve team processes.

What you’ll bring with you

• Proficient with the stack we use; .net/C#, React, AWS
• Ability to debug across a technology stack
• Confident in upgrading tooling and technology underlying products
• Proficient in roll out and maintenance of cloud infrastructure for team's products.
• Able to implement resilient software design patterns
• Able to maintain, update and document team APIs
• Familiar with application and infrastructure security concerns and proactively mitigates issues
• Regularly practices test driven and trunk based development
• Demonstrated ability to respond to production incidents

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.