Cloud Platform Developer
Our Purpose
Small business makes the world go around – it's the heart of the global economy. At Xero we want millions of small businesses to thrive through beautiful software, advice and connections. We aim to make being a small business more efficient and profitable, and more enjoyable too.
How you'll make an impact
Based in Denver working closely with a geographically diverse team, you will be integral to defining focus, strategy and architecture that align and push the expectations of Product Owners and customers alike. Your refined communication skills, solid foundation of development practices and high level of technical capability across cloud platforms will be integral in championing beautiful development solutions with industry standard architecture design. Your role is to challenge, inspire and influence the team's technical approach and capability to design, plan, improve and operate mission critical data services in the cloud.
What you'll bring with you
- Strong technical leadership skills
- Experienced development background. (C# / .NET, Python)
- Proven experience working with AWS services
- Driving change through early adoption of emerging technology
- Experience building high availability solutions
- Practical experience with infrastructure automation through code (Powershell, Bash, Python, Cloudformation, Terraform, etc.)
- Familiarity working with large data solutions
- A good knowledge of relational database systems and concepts (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.)
- Familiarity with agile software development methodology and tooling, including continuous integration and continuous deployment
- A strong desire to automate processes, build software tools, and create infrastructure-as-code solutions in a DevOps environment
- Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical abilities
What you'll do
- Drive technical solutions that shape the team's product roadmap
- Challenge, define and champion the cloud data teams development approaches and practices
- Help ensure the infrastructure operates in a cost effective manner that aligns with cost to serve
- Continuously improve processes and solutions to be scalable and highly available
- Work with the Product development teams to help them use the Cloud Data team's services to solve real-world problems and operational concerns
- Work with the team to define milestones and ensure fit for purpose delivery of solutions
- Work with the team to take operational responsibility for their services and to establish processes and monitoring which drives incremental improvement
- Develop continuous delivery pipelines to automate cloud based database solutions
- Build and support database infrastructure that conforms to industry and Xero standards
- Foster effective relationships with teams across the Platform and Product groups to understand user needs and business objectives
What do we offer?
The opportunity be part of a growing global success story; a fun, fast-paced work environment and a relaxed, supportive team. A competitive salary, shares in the company and a great office environment including endless table tennis matches, impromptu happy hours, and a stunning location situated in Denver (moving to our new beautiful building in Downtown Denver/Platte Street location August 2018!)
It's time to introduce yourself
Now that we've caught your attention, it's time to catch ours. Please apply if you:
Love doing #beautiful work – contribute to a beautiful experience for our customers.
Show your passion for the #human side of software development through cultivating a deep understanding of the needs and aspirations small business owners.
Seek the #challenge of complex technical problems, crazy-smart collaborators and a fast-paced work environment.
#Champion creative development by bringing a unique point of view while inspiring impeccable work from others.
Take #ownership by driving meaningful change and delivering results with passion and purpose.
Xero is an Equal Opportunity Employer