Xero · 2 months ago
Senior Engineer, Accounting Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$180K/yr - $219K/yrXero is a company dedicated to helping businesses thrive by leveraging technology to automate tasks and provide actionable insights. The Senior Engineer for the Accounting Platform will create and test software, resolve issues, and maintain engineering standards while collaborating with the team to enhance product quality and efficiency.
AccountingBillingFinTechPersonal FinanceSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Create software - Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, produce robust high quality and scalable software. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews
Test software - Design and automate testing activities that effectively reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and acceptance criteria. Collaborate with the team and understand their own responsibility for quality
Resolve issues - Triage and solve development and production issues, and be able to quickly track down the root cause
Communicate the impact of the problem to stakeholders in terms of business value, helping to set a priority for the resolution. Actively participate in incident responses
Engineering standards & frameworks- Maintain knowledge of Xero’s current and emerging engineering standards and practices. Develop and deploy software that meets Xero's standards
Continuous improvement- Maintain knowledge of current and emerging development technologies and methodologies. Develop expertise in one or more programming languages and ecosystem specific technologies
Deliver infrastructure in a production environment- Maintain and monitor delivery processes. Ensure all software is running as expected and proactively work to prevent customer facing problems
Modern software and delivery practices- Practice agile software development. Occasionally facilitate agile ceremonies. Proactively work to improve team processes
Recruitment - Participate in interviews and recruitment processes
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 behaviors
Communication skills - Communicate with the wider team appropriately, focusing on timeliness and good quality conversations
Build relationships - Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and team
Growth mindset - Understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work
Innovation and delivery- Develop a track record of innovating and delivering technology in a team and solving customer’s problems through software
Coaching and mentorship - Mentor people under guidance of Senior Engineer & People Lead
Work collaboratively - Work with others to achieve a good outcome using a working style that suits the problem at hand
Self-learning - Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies relevant to Xero’s engineering environment
Qualification
Required
High level of experience in a range of languages and tools (C#, .net, React, Typescript, Redux, etc.)
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
Preferred
Full Stack Engineer is ideal
Experience with agile software development
Experience in mentoring and coaching
Benefits
Very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing
Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
Employee resource groups
Wellbeing programming and allowances
Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
Fertility and family forming financial support
401k contribution matching
26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
Employee Share Plan
Beautiful offices with snacks and break areas
Flexible working
Career development
Company
Xero
Xero is an online accounting software for small businesses that automating invoicing, bank reconciliations, and reporting.
Founded in 2006
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.61BKey Investors
Callaghan InnovationTCVAccel
2024-06-05Post Ipo Debt· $925M
2021-09-08Grant· $0.06M
2020-10-23Grant· $0.06M
Leadership Team
James Coleman
Head of Developer Relations
Peggy Lee
Head of Communications, Asia
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