Sr. Engineer, U.S. Payroll

Our Purpose At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
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 businesses, 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. At Xero, we're here to make running a business beautiful. By making small businesses 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 businesses, we'll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

How You’ll Make Impact:

• Youʼll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster. Youʼll 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. Youʼll 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.
• Youʼll 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 - Guide technical design to ensure implementation of architecture principles and good engineering practice. Identify the technical blockers and waste that slow down the team. Work with engineering leadership and delivery teams to identify technical capabilities that need to be grown. Maintain in-depth system knowledge across all system boundaries relating to the teamʼs components as well as hands-on development expertise
• Test Software - Guide the quality engineering practices for your team, identifying and resolving challenges to ensure processes and tools are optimized for their context and engineers have the required knowledge and skills. Contribute to and champion Xeroʼs quality strategy and standards
• Resolve issues - Recognize and solve for common patterns of failure in the teamʼs delivery practices, preventing future issues by improving skills, processes or tooling. Measure the cost or value of issues, and open lead incident responses and post-mortems.
• Standards & frameworks - Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks. Work closely with engineering leadership to apply standards to software and delivery process
• Continuous improvement - Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xeroʼs software applications.
• Deliver infrastructure in a production environment - Champion automation of delivery processes and ensure deployment pipelines are fit for purpose. Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively work to prevent customer facing problems.
• 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.

What Success Looks Like:

• Coaching - encourages others to mentor each other and creates ways for them to do so. 
• Evangelism - Promotes Xero as a great, innovative company and workplace to the wider industry.
• Work collaboratively - Empowers and promotes high performing teams. 
• Self-learning - Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies relevant to Xeroʼs engineering environment.
• Live Xeroʼs vis