Engineer

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.

NB: This role is a backfill role and not a new role. We are considering candidates who want to work in our Auckland, Wellington or Hawke's Bay (Napier) offices, as well as working from anywhere remotely in NZ.

About the team

We are responsible for building and maintaining Xero’s authentication platform, which is critical to keeping Xero secure, available, and able to scale to millions of customers worldwide. Our teams own their entire stack; our typical work is a mix of software engineering, solution design, managing AWS resources whilst focusing on operational excellence.

We have roles available in an established team and we’re also building a new team to work on a new initiative directly related to Xero's key strategic objectives.

We pride ourselves on our efforts to always innovate and improve the way we work. This includes an emphasis on software performance, stability and scalability, as well as making the process of delivering and supporting our code as frictionless as possible.

Engineering @ Xero

We believe that a solid technical foundation and strong growth mindset are the keys to success in Software Engineering. So 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. 

Life @ Xero

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. 

• A microservice, written in C# on .NET or a Node.js microservice written in Typescript 
• 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 and collaboration
• Customer and product focus
• Commitment to supporting an inclusive culture and upholding Xero’s values

• Join an inclusive cross-functional team and collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering. Use the latest engineering and software delivery practices, at scale. Support your growth with various training and development resources, including the opportunity to become AWS certified. Get involved with the Xero Mentorship Program, our many communities of practice and Employee Resource Groups such as Rainbow X, Parents @ Xero, Neurodiversity @ Xero and many more.

• 28 days of leave each year (annual leave, xtra leave, holiday leave - 3 days over the end of year close-down), plus 10 days of Wellbeing leave and 1 day to volunteer in your community. We also have the option to purchase up to 10 days of Lifestyle leave.
• 26 weeks parental leave payments, Xero 'top-ups' your base salary up to maximum of 100%. Available from your first day.
• Employee Share Plan - own a part of Xero!
• Full subsidised health, life, income protection and trauma insurance for all permanent employees.
• Career Development - grow and develop your skills in exciting and challenging projects using latest tech, training budgets, gain knowledge from world class engineering leaders and peers.
• Great culture and flexible working environment - hybrid and permanent remote options with modern, ergonomic, sit to stand workstations, unwind at weekly Xero socials, fresh fruit, fizzy drinks, barista quality coffee, casual dress and more.
• Check out all the employee benefits, discounts, and perks in one place with our Xero Crew app.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset.

Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience. If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.

Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.