Engineer, Xero

• 2+ years' experience in Engineering with a high level of proficiency in a range of languages and tools, demonstrating a proven ability to contribute to internal ecosystems by building SDKs and libraries
• High level of experience in a range of languages and tools
• 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
• You’re a full-stack developer with experience in the following skills. While deep expertise in all areas isn't required, strong foundational knowledge in key areas and a growth mindset are essential
• C#
• ASP.NET
• .NET Core
• Javascript - specifically React, Redux
• Automated testing frameworks and methodologies
• Collaborate with your teammates doing pair and mob programming

Desirable

• As a Engineer, you will work as a member of the TaxCycle engineering team to help create quality tax software products. You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You’ll be part of a team that builds, maintains and owns services
• You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our existing suite of products and future products, 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 effectivel
• 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
• Engineering standards & frameworks - Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks
• Work closely with the Lead and Principal Engineers to apply standards to software and delivery processes
• 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
• Customer Feedback - Working cross functionally with the team to resolve escalated issues based on customer feedback, as needed
• Live Xero’s vision and values - Keep Xero’s vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and actions. Communicate and help others understand the importance of the vision and values. Translate the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviours
• Communication skills - Proactively share information, actively solicit feedback, manage and facilitate communication if needed
• Build relationships - Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and team. Be seen as a key 'go to' person for advice
• Growth mindset - Understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. Coach and provide feedback to others on development plans
• Innovation and delivery - Proactively innovate and deliver technology in a team and solve customer problems through software
• Coaching and mentorship - Teach small groups of engineers and contribute to Xero's shared knowledge base
• Work collaboratively - Help individuals resolve difficult problems with empathy, exchange ideas, demonstrate conflict management skills
• Self-learning - Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies relevant to Xero’s engineering environment