Xero
Denver, CO

Senior Software Engineer

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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.


How you’ll make an impact


You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster.


You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our existing suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external.


You’ll help maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero and support your team members in building products together. You’ll demonstrate leadership on best practices, and be a role model and mentor for other team members. You’ll contribute to our cross functional environment by working 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 to automate. You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' 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. Recognize 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 behaviors.
  • Communication skills - Proactively share information, actively solicit feedback, respectfully challenge the status quo, 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. 

What you’ll bring with you

  • 5+ years of experience with C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server and Javascript.
  • Proven ability to contribute to internal ecosystems, build SDKs and libraries to enable other teams to integrate with their products. 
  • Able to debug across the entire Xero technology stack to unblock the team. 
  • Able to make major code design decisions for individual products.
  • Highly proficient in the architecture and implementation of distributed systems. Ability to refactor complex, monolithic systems into scalable, resilient components. 
  • Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
  • Strong advocate and teacher of TDD and automated tooling to safely and repeatedly release code. 
  • Ability to review and coordinate team processes to improve quality and strengthen feedback loops.

Xero is an equal opportunity employer

  • Xero celebrates diversity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where our employees can do the best work of their lives. We are committed to transparency and to equal pay for equal work. Total compensation for this role includes a base salary of $110,000 to $135,000, commensurate with experience, plus an annual grant of Xero shares, calculated as a percentage of base salary.
  • Xero offers access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (in CA & CO only)
  • Xero will match 100% on the first 3% of 401k contributions plus 50% match on next 2% of contributions
  • Employees enjoy 21 days of paid time off per year
  • Employees have 10 days of wellbeing leave to care for their minds, bodies, and families
  • US employees enjoy 11 paid holidays per year
  • Xero offers an industry-leading 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% pay
  • Xero offers a number of employee wellness programs, to include yoga, mindfulness and nutrition workshops, EAP, free flu shots, team meals, and a monthly wellbeing allowance




Why Xero?


Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that. A collaborative and inclusive environment is important to us. Working at Xero will provide you with a diverse and inclusive environment alongside people who will respect, challenge and support you to have fun while you do the best work of your life. We are a place where personal development, flexible working, innovation, and well-being are not just inspired but celebrated. We value our people and offer a wide range of compelling benefits and perks, including Xero shares.


Xero’s collaborative culture is underscored by our values - #Ownership, #Challenge, #Beautiful, #Human and #Team - which empower us to understand and serve customers, attract top talent and continuously innovate. From the moment you step through our doors, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

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What are Xero Perks + Benefits

Xero Benefits Overview

Xero offers a variety of benefits aimed at helping our employees maintain their physical, financial and mental wellbeing, allowing them to bring their best selves to work each day

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Xero employees are given a day off each year to volunteer in their communities.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Remote work program
Typically, we work from home as needed. During COVID, all employees are working remotely and have access to stipends to access the equipment they need to be successful.
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
42% of Xero's leadership team is female, while our Board of Directors maintains an equal gender balance. Xero was included in Bloomberg's 2020 Gender Equality Index report.
Mandated unconscious bias training
All Xero employees will complete online unconscious bias training during on-boarding
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
The talent and leadership teams at Xero are committed to building diverse talent pipelines that reflect the communities we serve.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Xero allows employees to set aside pre-tax dollars for medical and dependent care expenses. $2,650 annual limit for healthcare FSA
Disability insurance
Xero's long and short term disability plans provide income protection at 60% of annual base salary
Dental insurance
Cigna dental PPO plan
Vision insurance
VSP vision plan
Health insurance
Xero offers a variety of health plans including Cigna HSA, Cigna PPO, and Kaiser HMO for Colorado and California employees
Life insurance
Provided to Xero employees at no cost. Coverage for each employee of 2x annual base salary up to $500,000
Wellness programs
Xero will fund up to $300 annually in employee health reimbursement account to be used toward a health improvement activity including gym membership, mental, physical or financial health
Mental health benefits
Concern EAP benefits for all employees
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Xero will match 100% on the first 3% contributions plus 50% match on next 2% of contributions
Company equity
All Xero employees are granted Restricted Stock Units at a certain percentage of their base salary which vests over a 3 year period
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
26 weeks paid parental leave.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Xero offers 21 days of paid time off, 10 wellness days, as well as 11 paid holidays per calendar year. We also participate in a company wide shut down between Christmas and New Years Day
Paid volunteer time
Xero encourages employees to give back to our communities by providing 8 hours of paid volunteer time per year
Paid holidays
11 paid holidays per calendar year
Paid sick days
Each employee is granted 10 wellness days per year in addition to our generous PTO
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Set aside pre and/or post tax dollars for commute related transit, parking and bike expenses
Company-sponsored outings
Annual holiday party, as well as a summer celebration!
Free snacks and drinks
You find a variety of fruit, chips, nuts, snack bars, sodas and iced tea in the Xero kitchen
Some meals provided
Breakfast each Tuesday and lunch every Thursday from a variety of local vendors
Company-sponsored happy hours
Happy hour starts every Friday at 4!
Fitness stipend
Our monthly health reimbursement plan can be used towards your fitness membership or a variety of other health related wellness programs
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Teams have budget set aside each year to support growth and up-skilling
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

Xero leadership consistently reviews benefits to ensure they are competitive and allow our people to bring their full selves to work each day.

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