Senior Software Engineer, Xero
Bills
CA$144.3-194.3k
Offers Equity
Office located in Richmond Street West, Toronto
Accounting software for small businesses
Be an early applicant
Accounting software for small businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$144.3-194.3k
Offers Equity
Office located in Richmond Street West, Toronto
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for candidates who are open to a hybrid setup to connect in person and take full advantage of our office environment when needed
- Ultimately, we support flexible working and want you to balance your work and life in the way that suits you best
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining large React apps (This is our highest priority)
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend stack (C# is a bonus; Java, Golang, C++ etc. perfectly acceptable) with experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs
- Ability to lead initiatives independently from concept through delivery
- Strong collaboration skills and experience building relationships across teams to influence technical direction
- Experience and interest in learning about and advocating for the right AI enhanced tooling and solutions
- Proven track record of contributing to architectural decisions and raising the technical bar through code reviews and mentoring
- Experience working with complex systems and monitoring their health
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and tools such as AWS and Terraform
- Apply even if your experience isn't a perfect match! At Xero, we hire based on your skills, passion, and the unique perspective you can bring to enhance our culture and team
What the job involves
- You will be joining the Bills team, a core product unit focused on digitizing spend management for over a million of our customers
- In this role, you will be a key contributor to the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software that enhances business cash flow and saves time for our users
- Our Bills product automates bill creation and management, approval workflows, and integrates with payment systems to streamline the entire process
- You will directly influence the evolution of our product, ensuring we deliver robust solutions that empower small businesses to reach their potential
- This role sits within the Bills team, which operates as two agile, full-stack pods
- You'll report to the Team Lead and work closely with product owners, designers, lead engineers, and adjacent engineering teams
- The team is dedicated to writing clean, maintainable code and advocating for sustainable team practices
- You will establish and maintain strong collaborations both within the development team and the wider organization, while playing a crucial role in mentoring intermediate developers to foster a culture of knowledge sharing
- Using React, Typescript, .NET, C#, AWS, SQL Server, and RESTful web services to write clean, maintainable systems
- Working with modern AI tools to reduce developer toil
- Building and maintaining unit, API, and end-to-end tests
- Improving our deployment pipeline to reduce toil and risk
- Collaborating with product owners and designers to scope, prototype, and develop new software specifications and designs
- Maintaining awareness of risks, compliance, and regulatory obligations (financial regulations and data privacy) related to the Bills product area
- Monitoring and analyzing system health to ensure high performance and reliability
- Participating in an on-call rotation to support production systems
- This role is based in our Toronto, Ontario office, where we foster a human-first culture designed for collaboration (complete with snacks and breakout areas)
Our take
For a long time, high-quality financial services have been reserved for large-scale businesses. Xero solves this problem by giving small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers access to best-in-class finance and accounting solutions.
Xero is one of the largest companies of its kind, with its promise to save time and effort for small business owners - who often don’t have in-house accounting teams - capturing interest and allowing the company to scale. It has a strong rival in Intuit QuickBooks, which offers similar services, but competes by being most effective for growing startups, and having an incredibly simple user experience.
A series of acquisitions and partnerships, including the purchase of Instafile in 2018, have consolidated Xero’s market share. The company continues to add new integrations, such as with Vehocheck Workshop Manager, and the 2023 launched Beautiful Business Fund that will help small businesses accelerate growth.
Steph
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Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington
Leadership
Prior to Xero, she founded Boardlist and Joyus. She also served as the CEO of Polyvore and as a President of Asia Pacific and Latin America Operations at Google.
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