Senior Back-End Software Engineer

The role/ impact

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the engineering teams behind the Xero Accounting App (XAA), our flagship mobile experience that helps small business owners stay on top of their finances wherever they are. You will contribute to high-velocity product delivery while maintaining a steadfast commitment to system health and engineering excellence, leveraging AI to improve productivity and ship value to our customers, faster.

You’ll seek clarity within technical complexities, making data-driven decisions and major code design choices that solve engineering problems at scale. As a role model for best practices, you will support your team in building high-quality products, ensuring our software is scalable, secure, and maintainable.

You’ll help maintain a high standard for engineering excellence by coaching and mentoring team members. By proactively sharing information and soliciting feedback, you will foster a collaborative environment and a psychologically safe culture where the team can grow together.

The team / how they connect

We are the engineering teams behind the Xero Accounting mobile app. We thrive in a hybrid, high velocity and cross-functional environment, partnering closely with Product and Design teams to deliver beautiful mobile experiences for customers, faster. We collaborate deeply with web, platform and domain teams to ensure a reliable and seamless experience across all channels.

The team is currently working on

• Ship Value: Develop and deliver high impact mobile workflows for key jobs-to-be-done such as banking, invoicing, payments, files within the mobile channel. You will contribute to technical design and lead by example in code reviews, ensuring we ship software that surpasses customer expectations.

• Operation Excellence: Uphold our solemn responsibility for availability, accuracy, security, and scalability. You will relentlessly automate manual processes, recognize common patterns of failure to mitigate issues before they reach production, and proactively participate in incident responses and post-mortems.

• Efficiency: Get better at our work over time to deliver value more efficiently. You will champion this by simplifying technical complexities and identifying smart ways to automate delivery within the team. You’ll leverage modern practices (including AI) to deliver value to customers faster, ensuring our development processes remain lean and effective.

Where and how you can work

Our teams are located in Australia and this hybrid role is based in Melbourne or Sydney, offering flexibility in how you work.

Here are some of the things we are looking for

• You bring extensive experience with .NET, designing and building high-performance RESTful APIs that are scalable, secure, and maintainable, alongside a high degree of openness to learn new technologies.

• A proven proficiency in software design patterns, distributed architectures, and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD) with the ability to apply these standards to complex software and delivery processes.

• Customer obsession is at the heart of your work, and you ensure that customer needs remain at the centre of everything you do.

• You thrive in dynamic environments, handle change with a growth mindset. When directions shift, you help your team find the 'win' by seeking clarity in complexity and identifying smart ways to pivot, keeping the focus on releasing value early and solving customer problems effectively.

• A bias for action defines your approach; you prefer taking incremental steps and learning through execution, prioritising practical progress and momentum over over-analysis.

• You view clear and accurate communication as a fundamental engineering discipline, allowing you to translate business needs into technical specifications and explain complex constraints with data-driven clarity.

Please apply even if your experience isn't a perfect match! At Xero, we hire based on your skills, passion, and the unique perspective you can bring to enhance our culture and team.