Associate Engineer - Platform

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 you’ll join:

This role sits within Xero’s Customer Platforms team in the Platform domain (Sprouts pod), focusing on safeguarding the stability, performance and scalability of Xero’s core Salesforce Platform through DevOps and Platform solutions.

We are one of New Zealand’s largest and most comprehensive Salesforce implementation working with a team of experienced and certified Salesforce practitioners.

What you'll do:

• You will build and support the use of high quality platform and DevOps solutions for our Customer Platforms engineering teams, focusing on sustainably excellent engineering. 
• You will work closely with our wider Customer Platforms teams to design and deliver solutions that continually improve engineering experience within our teams and scale our Platform solutions. 
• You will undertake software application development on applications in our suite of solutions including DevOps, Salesforce and custom solutions, contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external.
• Practice agile software development. Occasionally facilitate ceremonies. Proactively work to improve team processes.
• You will help build and manage solutions that solve engineering problems at scale. You will be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to automate.

What you'll bring:

• You’ll have a growth and continuous learning mindset to solve problems in our platform ecosystem
• You’ll be open minded, keen to learn and take on a variety of engineering challenges to improve and safeguard our platform and engineering experience
• Exposure and experience to Salesforce is beneficial, but not a requirement
• Exposure and experience in DevOps engineering is beneficial, but not a requirement
• Experience in using a primary programming language, including but not limited to: Apex, JavaScript, Node.js, Html/CSS
• Experience with DevOps tools and platforms, including but not limited to: Git, GitHub Actions, New relic, Sfdx CLI, Bash, AWS

We embrace diversity and inclusion and value a challenge mindset at Xero. 

Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience. If you are excited about this role, and your experience doesn't align, we encourage you to apply, anyway. 

You could be the right person for a role. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application and throughout the interview process. 

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.