Senior Software Engineering @ Xero

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.

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!

While you don’t have to have worked with our tech stack previously, what is important is that you have relevant experience that will help you get started quickly, and you are happy to learn as you go.

 • A microservice, written in C# on .NET

 • Utilising a variety of AWS services

 • Running in a Docker container, orchestrated by Kubernetes

 • Accessed by SPA written in React with TypeScript

 • Deployed with an automated CI/CD pipeline

 • Monitored by industry leading monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging tools

 • Self-awareness and growth mindset

 • Openness to learning from failure

 • Honesty, transparency and encouraging of feedback

 • Teamwork, collaboration and mentorship

 • Customer and product focus

 • Commitment to supporting an inclusive culture and upholding Xero’s values

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.