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Senior Engineer (Syft Integration)

Remote Melbourne, Australia
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Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

About the team:

This specific position is pivotal in supporting the integration of Syft Analytics into our ecosystem to accelerate our mission to provide powerful insights. Syft Analytics is a leading global cloud-based reporting, insights, and analytics platform.


About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer at Xero, you’ll play a crucial role in building reliable, scalable solutions. You’ll contribute directly to our products while helping your team adopt strong development practices.

This is a hands-on, "on the tools" role. You'll play a key role in integrating analytics tools into our ecosystem and building beautiful analytics from the ground up, creating experiences that turn complex data into clear, actionable insights for our customers.

We believe that a solid technical foundation and strong growth mindset are the keys to success in Software Engineering. You won’t find a long list of must-have tech requirements below!

What you'll do:

  • Deliver impactful projects: Take ownership of semi-annual/annual outcomes, ensuring successful delivery while improving team effectiveness.
  • Lead by example: Act as a role model for engineering excellence, promoting best practices and guiding the team in adopting effective processes.
  • Support team growth: Provide mentorship and technical guidance, helping teammates develop their skills and grow professionally.
  • Drive improvement: Identify and implement enhancements to team workflows, ensuring scalable and efficient delivery of high-quality solutions.
  • Foster collaboration: Build strong, productive relationships with cross-functional teams to align efforts and achieve shared goals.

What you'll bring with you:

  • Previous experience as a Senior Software Engineer, with a track record of delivering high-quality software solutions at scale.
  • Deep understanding of the full development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
  • Experience auditing codebases to maintain high standards for security, scalability, and testability, while ensuring code changes are manageable and efficient.
  • Ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including engineers, product managers, and stakeholders.
  • Skilled in contributing to or facilitating discussions on application design and implementation, with a focus on scaling products effectively.
  • Demonstrated ability to guide and mentor engineers, fostering growth and excellence within the team while embodying Xero's values.
  • Hands-on experience with designing and building modern engineering stacks, with exposure to platforms like AWS or GCP being highly beneficial.
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.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. Our goal is to make sure you feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life. 

At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.
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