As a Senior Front-End Engineer, you'll shape user experience, drive innovation, mentor team members, and tackle complex technical problems while maintaining high-quality solutions.
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.
About the team
Our Customer Platforms team builds innovative solutions that simplify complexity and drive informed decision-making across the customer facing platform at Xero.
About the role
As a Senior Engineer specialising in front-end development, you'll be instrumental in shaping the user-facing experience of our customer facing website. You'll work in a team focused on building and maintaining revenue generating initiatives, ensuring it is a secure, intuitive, and high-performing gateway for new customers and a seamless experience for existing ones.
We're looking for somebody who can be a role model for engineering excellence, supporting the team to grow their technical capabilities and improve development practices, ultimately owning outcomes that truly matter.
Any experience building applications using the following tools and technologies would be a huge plus: React, React Testing Library, Styled Components, Storybook, Jest, NextJS, Java11 or above, AEM/Apache Sling, NodeJS (ES6+), AWS (mainly S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CDK), Akamai (or other CDNs), CI/CD products (TeamCity, Github Actions, AWS Codebuild).
If you're passionate about solving complex problems with a human-centered approach, join us in making life beautiful for small businesses.
What you'll do:
- Stay hands-on: Dedicate at least 75% of your time to technical tasks, including code and design reviews, technical kick-offs, legacy code exploration, proof-of-concept development, and incident response.
- Influence: Use your experience to influence the technical direction for the team, mentor team members, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
- Drive innovation: Encourage experimentation and the adoption of new technologies to improve our products and processes.
- Collaborate effectively: Work closely with martech managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Solve complex problems: Tackle challenging technical problems and find innovative solutions.
What you'll bring:
- Proven experience as a Senior Front-End developer or Technical Lead; you'll come with hands-on experience across the entire development and implementation lifecycle, delivering software solutions at scale.
- Proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks, with a strong emphasis on React. A solid understanding of web performance, responsive design, CSS frameworks and Styled Components.
- Proven experience with on-call practices and deep understanding of monitoring and observability tooling to proactively manage, troubleshoot, and optimise production systems at scale.
- Proven skills as a technical leader, including but not limited to: mentoring other engineers, auditing codebases, driving engineering standards, and breaking down problems into digestible chunks.
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.
We offer 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
Akamai
AWS
Aws Codebuild
Cdk
Github Actions
Java
JavaScript
Jest
Nextjs
Node.js
React
React Testing Library
Storybook
Styled Components
Teamcity
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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