Senior Front-End Engineer

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.

About the Team

This role will join Xero's Subscription & Billing team, we collect over a billion dollars of revenue every year. Our vision is to be the billing product for Xero that scales quickly, integrates easily, enables insights while delighting customers with a beautiful self service experience.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Engineer with a strong lean towards front-end technologies. Whilst front-end components would be a big part of your day to day, you'll need to be comfortable working on .NET applications and the technologies that surround them.

• Knowledge of web fundamentals and best practices: semantic HTML, CSS and modern JavaScript / TypeScript
• Awareness and experience in these aspects of web development: testing, build tooling, performance, responsive design, security, accessibility, localisation
• Experience building and maintaining complex web applications, preferably in React + Redux
• Confident in upgrading tooling and technology underlying products
• Able to implement resilient software design patterns
• Knowledge of what makes a good API, be it a function, a component, or a web service

• Self-awareness and growth mindset
• Openness to learning from failure
• Honesty, transparency and encouraging of feedback
• Teamwork, collaboration and mentorship
• Customer and product focus
• Commitment to supporting an inclusive culture and upholding Xero’s values

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, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.