As a Senior Engineer at Xero, you will develop mobile software on iOS, advocate for best practices, engage in code reviews, drive continuous improvement, and mentor team members to enhance quality and delivery standards.
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.
How you’ll make an impact
You will develop software for mobile products on the Apple iOS Development platform. You’ll continually drive delivery and continuous product improvement. You’ll help maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero and support your team membersin building products together. You’ll demonstrate leadership on best practices, and be a role modeland mentor for other team members. You’ll contribute to our cross functional environment byworking towards the same objectives, using modern principles and practices.
You’ll be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways toautomate. You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xerocustomers' problems more effectively.
What you'll do
- Create software – Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, develop high-quality and scalable software, and coach others to do the same. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews as a role model for giving and receiving feedback.
- Test software – Design and perform sophisticated testing activities that effectively and efficiently reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and quality criteria. Coach team members to enable high-quality testing in line with Xero’s quality strategy and standards.
- Resolve issues – Efficiently assess the causes and identify solutions for development or production issues, and effectively communicate the impact to stakeholders. Recognise common patterns of failure to mitigate issues before they reach production. Proactively participate in incident responses and contribute to post-mortems.
- Engineering standards & frameworks – Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks. Work closely with the Lead and Principal Engineers to apply standards to software and delivery processes.
- Continuous improvement – Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications.
- Deliver infrastructure in a production environment – Champion automation of delivery processes. Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively works to prevent customer-facing problems.
- Modern software and delivery practices – Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space in order to ensure a consistent approach to ways of working.
- Recruitment – Participate in interviews and recruitment processes.
How you'll do it
- Live Xero’s vision and values – Keep Xero’s vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and actions. Communicate and help others understand the importance of the vision and values. Translate the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviours.
- Communication skills – Proactively share information, actively solicit feedback, manage and facilitate communication if needed.
- Build relationships – Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and team. Be seen as a key 'go to' person for advice.
- Growth mindset – Understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. Coach and provide feedback to others on development plans.
- Innovation and delivery – Proactively innovate and deliver technology in a team and solve customer problems through software.
- Coaching and mentorship – Teach small groups of engineers and contribute to Xero's shared knowledge base.
- Work collaboratively – Help individuals resolve difficult problems with empathy, exchange ideas, demonstrate conflict management skills.
- Self-learning – Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies relevant to Xero’s engineering environment. Stay up to date with iOS and other Apple development technologies, and identify and promote opportunities to make use of these technologies within the mobile team.
What you'll bring with you
- Critical competencies and experience:
- Strong advocate and teacher of TDD and automated tooling to safely and repeatedly release code.
- Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
- Able to make major code design decisions for individual products.
- An eye for detail and passion for good UI/UX.
- Expert command of Xcode IDE.
- High coding standards and an emphasis on testing.
- Experience in developing software that is secure, performant and scalable.
- Experience with agile methodologies.
- Experience using and keeping up with latest iOS development trends.
- Swift proficiency.
- Knowledge and experience working with MVVM and clean architecture patterns.
What we value
- Human – Xeros are authentic, inclusive and really care.
- Challenge – Xeros dream big, lead and embrace change.
- Team – Xeros are great team players.
- Ownership – Xeros deliver on our commitments.
- Beautiful – Xeros create experiences that people love.
This position description is intended merely as a guideline of the responsibilities involved in the position. The employee is expected to perform any other duties as reasonably required by their Manager
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, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, 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.
Top Skills
Automated Tooling
Ci/Cd
Clean Architecture
iOS
Mvvm
Swift
Xcode
Xero Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
Our office is in the heart of the Sydney CBD with views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. We're just over by Wynyard Park so it's easy to get to.
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