Senior Engineer - Mobile (Android)

Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to make running a business beautiful. By making small business more efficient every day, connecting them with big business technology and empowering a community behind them, their potential is limitless. When that happens, we’re not only helping small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

How you’ll make an impact

You will develop software for mobile products on the Android Development platform. You’ll continually drive delivery and continuous product improvement. 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. Recognise 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

What you'll bring with you

What we value

This position description is intended merely as a guideline of the responsibilities involved in the position. The employee is expected to perform any other duties as reasonably required by their Manager.

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