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:

The Reliability team is passionate about building reliable and efficient software. We provide real time support to Xero’s customer facing applications and now, as we scale up Xero’s data platforms, have started developing world class tooling too. 

We need talented intermediate and senior software engineers to join us in tackling the unique challenges of working at Xero’s worldwide scale. You will apply your engineering skills to understand and address the challenges faced by our customers, and to drive the development of applications and tools that improve the scalability and performance of Xero as a whole.

If you enjoy flexibility in the way you work, and diving into difficult engineering problems while having the freedom to solve them creatively, this is the role for you. We have fantastic opportunities to bring on multiple Senior and Intermediate Software Engineers on a permanent remote basis.

What you'll bring:

• 2-3 years or more of software team experience with C# (back end experience with .NET Core and/or .NET 5.0 preferred)
•  Self driven, pragmatic and have a desire to solve hard scalability problems with your strong troubleshooting skills.
• Willing to ask questions and challenge existing ways of working.
• Experience in highly concurrent or highly available systems is a plus, as is experience with AWS or other cloud services.
• Hands-on experience with relational or non-relational databases, or ORMs would be helpful (eg. MSSQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySql, Dapper, Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core)
• Familiar with Lean, Agile, or similar practices.

Why you should become a Xero

Xero is continuing to grow and so are the opportunities to join us!

You can choose to perform this role:

- In one of our #beautiful offices

- Flexibly, through a hybrid of in office and remote working styles

- Permanently Remote

It’s a diverse and inclusive environment, with people who will respect, challenge, support and mentor you to do the best work of your life.  We’re a place where innovation and change are not only encouraged, but celebrated.  We value our people and want them to enjoy and take pride in their work.