Xero

Company Name: Xero
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer- Syft Integration
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.

For more information, please check out this post from our CEO, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy!

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!

What you'll do
Stay hands-on: Dedicate at least 50% of your time to technical tasks, including code and design reviews, technical kick-offs, legacy code exploration, proof-of-concept development, and incident response.
Lead by example: Set the technical direction for the team, mentor team members, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
Drive innovation: Encourage experimentation and the adoption of new technologies to improve our products and processes.
Collaborate effectively: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
Solve complex problems: Tackle challenging technical problems and find innovative solutions.

What you'll bring to the role
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.

London, United Kingdom

Remote

10-03-2025

Company Name: Xero
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
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.

You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. 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 existing suite of products
(including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and
external.
You’ll help maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero and support your team members
in building products together. You’ll demonstrate leadership on best practices, and be a role model
and mentor for other team members. You’ll contribute to our cross functional environment by
working towards the same objectives, using modern principles and practices.
You’ll be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to
automate. You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero
customers' problems more effectively.

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.
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
High level of experience in a range of languages and tools including experience in the tech we use C#/.Net, React, SQL Server, and AWS.
Proven ability to contribute to internal ecosystems, build SDKs and libraries to enable other teams to integrate with their products.
Able to debug across the entire Xero technology stack to unblock the team.
Able to make major code design decisions for individual products.
Highly proficient in the architecture and implementation of distributed systems. Ability to refactor complex, monolithic systems into scalable, resilient components.
Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
Strong advocate and teacher of TDD and automated tooling to safely and repeatedly release code. Ability to review and coordinate team processes to improve quality and strengthen feedback loops.

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.

United Kingdom

Remote

12-03-2025

Company Name: Xero
Job Title: Intermediate Software Engineer
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.

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.
You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will be enabled
to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to automate. You’ll
be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems
more effectively.

At Xero, the Engineer role sits between Associate Engineer and Senior Engineer on our engineering career ladder. If you are a full stack intermediate engineer we would love to hear from you!
Graduate Engineer -> Associate Engineer -> Engineer -> Senior Engineer -> Lead Engineer -> Principal Engineer -> Senior Principal Engineer

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
Experience in the tech we use C#/.Net, React, SQL Server, and 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.

United Kingdom

Remote

12-03-2025

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