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Job Title	Senior Engineer - API
Company	xero
Job Location	Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Hawkes Bay, NZ / Remote New Zealand
Workplace Type	Hybrid
Job Type	Permanent
Job Category	Product & Technology – Product: Small Business Direct
Min Pay	0
Max Pay	0
Pay Currency
Pay Cycle
Last Seen	15 day(s) ago
Description	"Our Purpose At Xero we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data advisors and apps. When that happens we’re not only making life better for small business we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.About the role:You'll be joining one of the dedicated teams that primarily work on Xero’s mobile apps we are currently hiring for two Senior Backend Engineer roles. Ownership is covering the global signup flow which involves handling in-app subscriptions purchases and all the integrations involved or working on invoicing and contacts management with a current focus on building functionality for the US market.Our mobile teams are multi-disciplinary with specialists in iOS Android and Backend Engineering all within a single team working together to craft software for Xero's native mobile products.Our teams are distributed across Australia and New Zealand where we work collaboratively with cross-functions such as Design Marketing and Product. This has enabled multiple achievements such as Apple's ""App of the Day"" in April and May 2025.We’re all about driving delivery by getting value into the hands of our customers: Building app features that are reliable and scalable. We like to constantly improve our work with research experiments health monitoring and prototyping. Essentially we're involved in every step of the product journey for Xero's millions of users.We’re not just looking for someone who’s great at engineering we want somebody who can move the needle on results. We want someone who loves to help others grow. You’ll be crucial in making architectural decisions implementation decisions offering technical guidance and mentoring to fellow developers.What you'll do:- You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale.- You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers faster.- You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our existing suite of products (including new ones) 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 effectively. ➡ What you'll bring with you: ➡ Strong advocate and teacher of TDD and automated tooling to safely and repeatedly release code.Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling.Able to make major code design decisions for individual products.High coding standards and an emphasis on testing.Experience in developing software that is secure performant and scalable.Experience with agile methodologies.Experience using and keeping up with latest .NET development trends.C# and .NET proficiency.Experience working with AWS and Kubernetes. Previous experience enabling mobile teams from an API perspective is a bonus.And previous experience developing iOS or Android software is an additional bonus. What you'll do as a Senior Engineer at Xero: ➡ 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. ➡ 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."
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Job Title

Senior Engineer - API

Company

xero

Job Location

Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ / Hawkes Bay, NZ / Remote New Zealand

Workplace Type

Hybrid

Job Type

Permanent

Job Category

Product & Technology – Product: Small Business Direct

Min Pay

0

Max Pay

0

Pay Currency

Pay Cycle

Last Seen

15 day(s) ago

Description

"Our Purpose At Xero we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data advisors and apps. When that happens we’re not only making life better for small business we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.About the role:You'll be joining one of the dedicated teams that primarily work on Xero’s mobile apps we are currently hiring for two Senior Backend Engineer roles. Ownership is covering the global signup flow which involves handling in-app subscriptions purchases and all the integrations involved or working on invoicing and contacts management with a current focus on building functionality for the US market.Our mobile teams are multi-disciplinary with specialists in iOS Android and Backend Engineering all within a single team working together to craft software for Xero's native mobile products.Our teams are distributed across Australia and New Zealand where we work collaboratively with cross-functions such as Design Marketing and Product. This has enabled multiple achievements such as Apple's ""App of the Day"" in April and May 2025.We’re all about driving delivery by getting value into the hands of our customers: Building app features that are reliable and scalable. We like to constantly improve our work with research experiments health monitoring and prototyping. Essentially we're involved in every step of the product journey for Xero's millions of users.We’re not just looking for someone who’s great at engineering we want somebody who can move the needle on results. We want someone who loves to help others grow. You’ll be crucial in making architectural decisions implementation decisions offering technical guidance and mentoring to fellow developers.What you'll do:- You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale.- You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers faster.- You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our existing suite of products (including new ones) 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 effectively. ➡ What you'll bring with you: ➡ Strong advocate and teacher of TDD and automated tooling to safely and repeatedly release code.Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling.Able to make major code design decisions for individual products.High coding standards and an emphasis on testing.Experience in developing software that is secure performant and scalable.Experience with agile methodologies.Experience using and keeping up with latest .NET development trends.C# and .NET proficiency.Experience working with AWS and Kubernetes. Previous experience enabling mobile teams from an API perspective is a bonus.And previous experience developing iOS or Android software is an additional bonus. What you'll do as a Senior Engineer at Xero: ➡ 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. ➡ 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."

Apply Now