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Sr. Engineer
| Company | Xero |
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| Location | San Mateo, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $216000 – $237000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Expert in your area of specialization.
- Ability to experiment with new languages and tooling.
- Experience in auditing teams codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and ability to make changes easily.
- Expertise in distributed systems architecture.
- Experience in leading discussions and implementation for scaling products to 2-10 times the number of users.
- Able to ensure team products meet Xero’s various engineering standards.
- Experience in contributing to discussions around new standards and revisions to existing ones.
- Able to act as incident coordinator in production incidents.
- Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines.
Responsibilities
- Create software – Guide technical design to ensure implementation of architecture principles and good engineering practice.
- Test Software – Guide the quality engineering practices for your team, identifying and resolving challenges to ensure processes and tools are optimized for their context.
- Resolve issues – Recognize and solve for common patterns of failure in the team’s delivery practices.
- Standards & frameworks – Contribute to Xero’s engineering standards and frameworks.
- 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 and ensure deployment pipelines are fit for purpose.
- Software and delivery practices – Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others.
- Recruitment – Participate in interviews and recruitment processes.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
