Senior Engineer, Xero
Developer Productivity
CA$153-168k
Accounting software for small businesses
Job no longer available
Accounting software for small businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$153-168k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience contributing to the design, development, and maintenance of highly scalable production systems, including building high-quality automation frameworks
- High level of experience in a range of languages and tools
- Proficiency in C#, .NET, Javascript, Typescript, React, Node, Docker, Kubernetes, New Relic and AWS
- Understand the architecture and implementation of distributed systems. Expertise in performance tuning, including designing effective tests, interpreting results, diagnosing and resolving performance issues
- Proficient in monitoring and observability tooling, load balancing concepts and autoscalling
- SQL knowledge to analyze database performance bottlenecks and create robust test data
- Extensive experience with CI/CD and integrating standardized testing frameworks to empower product teams to effectively develop and execute tests
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineer on the Developer Productivity team, you'll lead the charge in establishing robust performance metrics, strategies and frameworks for the Data-In organization
- You'll Increase developer velocity by streamlining deployment pathways with new tooling
- Empowering developers to achieve greater efficiency, resulting in faster, high-quality production releases
- 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
- 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
- Performance: Lead the development and implementation of performance engineering strategies, including system performance measurement, tracking, and reporting for key systems
- Tooling: Own the creation of innovative developer tooling and champion automation of delivery processes to proactively address product development challenges and streamline the development lifecycle
- Problem-Solve: Tackle complex technical challenges, debug across the entire Xero technology stack, ensure system stability and prevent production issues by proactively managing and mitigating risks, identifying failure patterns, and contributing to incident responses and post-mortems
- Engineering Standards and Practices: Champion engineering standards and best practices, promoting modern software and delivery methodologies. Advocate for best practices in DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing, driving continuous improvement within the team
- Build relationships: Collaborate effectively with stakeholders and team members to build trust, drive coordination, and improve quality
- Grow People & Teams: Mentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of learning, growth, and engineering excellence
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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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