Senior Software Engineer - Product & Technology

Xero; Wellington; On-site; NZD 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking passionate engineers to join their mission of creating excellent software solutions. At Xero, you will work on cutting-edge technologies, including C#, .NET, AWS, and Docker, while collaborating with diverse teams to solve complex challenges. The company fosters a culture of inclusivity and growth, offering generous paid leave, mental health support, and opportunities for career development. If you're eager to make a difference in the world of small businesses, this is the perfect opportunity to thrive and contribute to a meaningful cause.

Benefits

Generous paid leave

Mental health support

Free medical insurance

Employee Assistance Program

26 weeks of paid parental leave

Employee Share Plan

Flexible working

Career development resources

Qualifications

• Solid technical foundation and strong growth mindset are key.
• Openness to learning from failure and encouraging feedback.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance Xero software.
• Build and maintain critical applications and services globally.

Skills

C#

.NET

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

React

TypeScript

CI/CD

Tools

Monitoring Tools

Job description

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

Engineering @ Xero

We're hiring for multiple positions across Xero, with a focus on two key areas: Xero Product, where you will work to continuously improve the features of Xero software; Xero Platform, where you'll build and maintain critical applications and services consumed by teams throughout Xero globally.

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!

Generally, if a team is creating a new code base, it may look like the following:

1. A microservice, written in C# on .NET
2. Utilising a variety of AWS services
3. Running in a Docker container, orchestrated by Kubernetes
4. Accessed by SPA written in React with TypeScript
5. Deployed with an automated CI/CD pipeline
6. Monitored by industry leading monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging tools

What we look for in a Xero Engineer:

1. Self-awareness and growth mindset
2. Openness to learning from failure
3. Honesty, transparency and encouraging of feedback
4. Teamwork, collaboration and mentorship
5. Customer and product focus
6. Commitment to supporting an inclusive culture and upholding Xero’s values

Life @ Xero

As an engineer at Xero, you’ll be joining us on our mission to be one of the most sustainably excellent software engineering companies in the world! You’ll have exposure to a variety of complex challenges at a global scale, whether it’s linking payments to different global markets, working on our world-renowned third party ecosystem or delivering solutions to small businesses around the world.

At Xero you will...

• Join an inclusive cross-functional team and collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering.
• Use the latest engineering and software delivery practices, at scale.
• Support your growth with various training and development resources, including the opportunity to become AWS certified.
• Get involved with the Xero Mentorship Program, our many communities of practice and Employee Resource Groups such as Rainbow X, Parents @ Xero, Neurodiversity @ Xero and many more.

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, free medical insurance, 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.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset.

Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience. If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application and throughout the interview process.

Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.