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 Xero's "Catalyst Engineering" portfolio is our platform engineering and developer enablement function, responsible for powering Xero's engineers and our Partner Ecosystem with the platforms and toolchains to rapidly build innovative, robust, and secure products that meet the needs of Xero's customers.
The team are at the forefront of technology adoption for Xero and include some of the best and brightest technology talent in the locations where we operate.
This role will sit within one of our API Golden Pathways pods who are collectively focused on providing a low friction approach to achieving a high quality, consistent, and representative set of APIs at Xero.
They use engagements with engineering teams to help advance API-focused initiatives with a focus on API ingress, versioning, naming, documentation, discovery, registration, and speed to market.
This specific pod is responsible for the provisioning, maintenance, and adoption of Xero Gateway as the single point of ingress for all inbound traffic.
As an Associate Engineer, you will focus on: Learning and growing your knowledge and skills, contributing to the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, and supporting your team members in building products together.
Contributing to our cross-functional environment by working towards the same objectives, using modern engineering principles and practices.
Undertaking 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.
You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale.
Seeking clarity with technical complexities and being able to demonstrate smart ways to automate.
Contributing to data-driven decisions to enhance the effectiveness of Xero's network solutions.
You will have the opportunity to use the below technologies: AWS and Kubernetes C# and Typescript Terraform for Infrastructure (and everything else) as Code Gloo Gateway In order to be successful in this role, you will be: Eager to learn and grow in cloud networking and infrastructure.
Having a basic understanding of networking principles and cloud platforms.
Interested in automating infrastructure and improving operational efficiency.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team.
Open to feedback and continuously improving your technical abilities.
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.
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