Overview

Why do we need you?
Our developers work on shaping and evolving a product that manages millions of documents per month.  We are looking for a passionate Senior Software Developer to join our expanding team and add real value to the business. You will work in small scrum teams collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders to deliver exceptional software to our users.

What team will you be joining?
You’ll be joining our Robot Platform team!  This team is responsible for the framework, systems and infrastructure which runs our 1300 automated document connections.  Help us massively scale our fleet and improve reliability. We work extensively with Node.js, Postgres, Redis, AWS and Docker. Our robots also interface with various front-end tools such as Vue.js, Angular, React, and Backbone.js, thus giving you a great opportunity to learn the inner workings of these platforms.

What essential skills will you need for the role?

  • 5 years work experience with scalable web applications. This includes understanding tasks such as horizontal scaling and continuous deployment
  • 5 years working with a relational database. We use PostgreSQL, but experience with MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, or Oracle are all acceptable. You understand how to write queries, define new tables, and have a basic understanding of concepts like indexing, replication, and views
  • Testing. We write our own unit, integration, and end-to-end tests and thorough code coverage is an essential part of considering work “done”
  • Recent experience with modern version control and ticketing systems. We use Git and Jira

What desirable skills would we love to see for this role?

  • Agile experience. We follow Scrum, familiarity with basic Scrum concepts (sprint, retro, story point, planning, estimation, etc…) is a bonus
  • Public cloud experience. We use AWS, and rely on tools like Terraform and Ansible to help manage and provision our infrastructure. If you’ve done anything similar in Azure or Google Cloud Platform you’re ahead of the game!
    Production support experience. Our production monitoring lives in Datadog, and we expect developers to understand how to implement monitoring metrics for the features they deliver

How you will contribute to the Development team?

  • Scalability is essential for our success and you’ll be working on Node.js services built on AWS engineered to provide self-healing, auto-scaling, redundancy, audit and logging
  • Part of delivering robust and scalable services involves thinking about how to deploy and monitor them. You will help create service health metrics, infrastructure code and provisioning tools
  • As a product and customer focused company, you will work closely with team members in other functions, including sales, support and marketing

Why you’ll love Xero
Diversity of people brings diversity of thought and we like that. A collaborative and inclusive environment is important to us. Working at Xero will provide you with a diverse and inclusive environment alongside people who will respect, challenge and support you to have fun while you do the best work of your life. We are a place where personal development, innovation, and change are not only inspired but also celebrated. We value our people and want them to enjoy and take pride in their work.

We have a unique and special culture based around our values (#ownership, #challenge, #beautiful, #human and #champion) and offer a number of other great benefits and perks including Xero shares…

So if you want to hear more and have the opportunity to help shape the next phase in the Xero success story please apply!

Xero is an Equal Opportunity Employer.