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Job Title	Senior Engineer - Android
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:As a Senior Android Engineer you'll be joining one of the dedicated teams that primarily work on mobile apps either owning the signup flow (including in-app purchases) or our payments space.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 team is 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 & 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 coding 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. We're looking for somebody who can be agnostic in their decision making so your expertise can help anybody within the team. We’ll count on you to keep a finger on the pulse of the latest technologies and seize opportunities to incorporate them into our mobile team’s work this can be within the industry but also within Xero's engineering space too.What you'll bring to the role:- You’ll be joining a high-impact team so previous experience in a senior engineer role is preferred.- An appetite to understand and learn the rest of the stacks (iOS Backend - preferably C#) is beneficial.- Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers.- Previous exposure to working in a similar product based environment to Xero with collaboration being a key part of your typical working modelA technical fluency in Android is essential especially in the following areas:- Kotlin & Coroutines- Testing knowledge – including unit testing etc.- Dependency Injection – XAA heavily relies on DI (Hilt) so I believe this is also a must-have skill.- Jetpack Compose – something we expect candidates to use as almost all new screens are built with Compose.- Knowledge and experience working with MVVM and clean architecture patterns. ➡ What you'll do: ➡ Continually delivering results through writing code and code reviews.Lead and/or participate in technical and architectural discussionsWorking in a cross-functional environment you’ll work with Product Design & Data peers to design prototype and implement product features.Identify opportunities in current technology and architecture to recommend solutions including tech improvements for stability monitoring and fault tolerance.Provide input when engineers in the team need help offering technical guidance and mentoring to help them grow and be the best version of themselves.Keep an ear to the ground in an effort to stay up to date with mobile development technologies identify and promote opportunities to make use of these technologies within the mobile team. ➡ 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 - Android

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:As a Senior Android Engineer you'll be joining one of the dedicated teams that primarily work on mobile apps either owning the signup flow (including in-app purchases) or our payments space.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 team is 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 & 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 coding 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. We're looking for somebody who can be agnostic in their decision making so your expertise can help anybody within the team. We’ll count on you to keep a finger on the pulse of the latest technologies and seize opportunities to incorporate them into our mobile team’s work this can be within the industry but also within Xero's engineering space too.What you'll bring to the role:- You’ll be joining a high-impact team so previous experience in a senior engineer role is preferred.- An appetite to understand and learn the rest of the stacks (iOS Backend - preferably C#) is beneficial.- Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers.- Previous exposure to working in a similar product based environment to Xero with collaboration being a key part of your typical working modelA technical fluency in Android is essential especially in the following areas:- Kotlin & Coroutines- Testing knowledge – including unit testing etc.- Dependency Injection – XAA heavily relies on DI (Hilt) so I believe this is also a must-have skill.- Jetpack Compose – something we expect candidates to use as almost all new screens are built with Compose.- Knowledge and experience working with MVVM and clean architecture patterns. ➡ What you'll do: ➡ Continually delivering results through writing code and code reviews.Lead and/or participate in technical and architectural discussionsWorking in a cross-functional environment you’ll work with Product Design & Data peers to design prototype and implement product features.Identify opportunities in current technology and architecture to recommend solutions including tech improvements for stability monitoring and fault tolerance.Provide input when engineers in the team need help offering technical guidance and mentoring to help them grow and be the best version of themselves.Keep an ear to the ground in an effort to stay up to date with mobile development technologies identify and promote opportunities to make use of these technologies within the mobile team. ➡ 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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