Senior Engineer - Developer Productivity

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.

Xero's Data-In organization revolutionizes how small businesses and their advisors interact with financial data. We're responsible for streamlining the ingestion, processing, and management of financial documents, unlocking valuable insights and enabling powerful automations.

As a Senior Engineer on the Developer Productivity team, you'll lead the charge in establishing robust performance metrics, strategies and frameworks for the Data-In organization.  You'll Increase developer velocity by streamlining deployment pathways with new  tooling.  Empowering developers to achieve greater efficiency, resulting in faster, high-quality production releases.

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.

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.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Performance:  Lead the development and implementation of performance engineering strategies, including system performance measurement, tracking, and reporting for key systems.
• Tooling: Own the creation of innovative developer tooling and champion automation of delivery processes to proactively address product development challenges and streamline the development lifecycle. 
• Problem-Solve: Tackle complex technical challenges,  debug across the entire Xero technology stack, ensure system stability and prevent production issues by proactively managing and mitigating risks, identifying failure patterns, and contributing to incident responses and post-mortems.
• Engineering Standards and Practices: Champion engineering standards and best practices, promoting modern software and delivery methodologies.  Advocate for best practices in DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing, driving continuous improvement within the team.
• Build relationships:  Collaborate effectively with stakeholders and team members to build trust, drive coordination, and improve quality.
• Grow People & Teams: Mentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of learning, growth, and engineering excellence.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience contributing to the design, development, and maintenance of highly scalable production systems, including building high-quality automation frameworks.
• High level of experience in a range of languages and tools. 
• Proficiency in C#, .NET, Javascript, Typescript,  React, Node, Docker, Kubernetes, New Relic and AWS.  
• Understand the architecture and implementation of distributed systems. Expertise in performance tuning, including designing effective tests, interpreting results, diagnosing and resolving performance issues.
• Proficient in monitoring and observability tooling, load balancing concepts and autoscalling.
• SQL knowledge to analyze database performance bottlenecks and create robust test data.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD and integrating standardized testing frameworks to empower product teams to effectively develop and execute tests.

Why Xero? 

Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that. Our human-first culture of respect, fairness, and inclusion is what helps Xeros thrive and work and beyond, and that includes our candidates. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience, but you could be just the right person for this role. If you are excited about working at Xero, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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, health insurance and dental reimbursement with vision allowances, a  healthcare spending account, fertility and family forming financial support, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with shared meals, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.