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.
About the team
The Customer Platforms Integration Team sits within Xero’s Enterprise Technology group, participating in some of the key Sales, Marketing, and Financial solutions used at Xero. Our remit sees us as key enablers for almost all of Xero's highest priority objectives, meaning there is never a dull day.
We leverage a number of key AWS services, including Elastic Container Service, Relational Database Service, Simple Notification Service, Simple Queueing Service, Lambda Service, Dynamo DB and many more alongside unmanaged services like Event Store, Kafka, Octopus Deploy, Team City.
About the role
We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our Customer Platforms Integration team. In this role, you will collaborate with a talented team to develop and deliver exceptional software solutions for our customers. You'll primarily work with back-end services, helping to aggregate and enrich data between Xero and some of our key enterprise tools (such as Salesforce).
We believe that a solid technical foundation, DevOps philosophy, and strong growth mindset are the keys to success in software engineering. While you don’t have to have worked with all of 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.
Generally, if a team is creating a new code base, it may look like the following:
• A microservice, written in C# on .NET
• Relational or non-relational data stores
• Messaging through eventing platforms
• Deployed into a containerised environment
• Utilising a variety of AWS services
• Operational excellence through alerting and monitoring solutions
What you'll bring
- Proven experience of experience as a Software Engineer with a DevOps mindset; ownership is key here, you'll be expected to manage and troubleshoot your own code in production, with an understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud-based infrastructure and deployment.
- Any previous exposure to our tech stack would be a huge plus (C#, SQL, SQL Server, Node.Js, AWS).
What we look for in a Xero Engineer...
- 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.
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, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
