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.
You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster. You’ll model the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices.
You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external.
You’ll contribute to the technical direction of the product group, helping grow our cross functional environment by identifying technical gaps, promoting capability growth, and championing & demonstrating modern principles and practices.
You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to simplify. 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
What you'll bring with you
What to expect from the Interview Process:
Our interview process is designed to give you an understanding of the role and what it's like to work at Xero, allowing us to assess your skills and experience. Here's what you can expect:
CV screening call: A brief introductory call with our talent team to discuss your application and answer any initial questions you may have.
Take-Home task: A technical task in two parts to assess your skills and technical aptitude in a real-world scenario.
Technical interview: An in-depth interview with our technical team to evaluate your technical expertise and knowledge.
Team and values alignment interview (Culture Contribution Interview) : A final interview with your potential team members to assess overall fit for the role and ensure alignment on values and working styles.
We really do appreciate your time and aim to make the process as efficient and transparent as possible. We look forward to receiving your application!
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, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.