Engineer, Mobile (iOS)

Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to make running a business beautiful. By making small business 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 business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

How you’ll make an impact

You will develop software for mobile products on the Apple iOS Development platform. You’ll continually drive delivery and continuous product improvement. You’ll maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, continuing to develop your knowledge and skills, and supporting your team members in building products together. You’ll contribute to our cross-functional environment by working towards the same objectives, using modern principles and practices. You’ll be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to automate. You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems more effectively.

• Create software – Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, produce robust high-quality and scalable software. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews.
• Test software – Design and automate testing activities that effectively reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and acceptance criteria. Collaborate with the team and understand their own responsibility for quality.
• Resolve issues – Triage and solve development and production issues, and be able to quickly track down the root cause. Communicate the impact of the problem to stakeholders in terms of business value, helping to set a priority for the resolution. Actively participate in incident responses.
• Engineering standards & frameworks – Maintain knowledge of Xeroʼs current and emerging engineering standards and practices. Develop and deploy software that meets Xero's standards.
• Continuous improvement – Maintain knowledge of current and emerging development technologies and methodologies. Develop expertise in one or more programming languages and ecosystem-specific technologies.
• Deliver infrastructure in a production environment – Maintain and monitor delivery processes. Ensure all software is running as expected and proactively work to prevent customer-facing problems.
• Modern software and delivery practices – Practice agile software development. Occasionally facilitate agile ceremonies. Proactively work to improve team processes.

• Live Xero’s vision and values – Keep Xero’s vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and actions. Communicate and help others understand the importance of the vision and values. Translate the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviours.
• Communication skills – Communicate with the wider team appropriately, focusing on timeliness and good quality conversations.
• Build relationships – Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and team.
• Growth mindset – Understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work.
• Innovation and delivery – Develop a track record of innovating and delivering technology in a team and solving customers’ problems through software.
• Coaching and mentorship – Mentor people under guidance of Senior Engineer & People Lead.
• Work collaboratively – Work with others to achieve a good outcome using a working style that suits the problem at hand.
• Self-learning – Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies relevant to Xero’s engineering environment. Stay up to date with iOS and other Apple development technologies, and identify and promote opportunities to make use of these technologies within the mobile team.

• Critical competencies and experience:
• Regularly practices test-driven and trunk-based development.
• Confident with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
• Able to implement resilient software design patterns.
• An eye for detail and passion for good UI/UX.
• Strong command of Xcode IDE.
• High coding standards and an emphasis on testing.
• Experience in developing software that is secure, performant and scalable.
• Experience with agile methodologies.
• Experience using and keeping up with latest iOS development trends.
• Swift proficiency.
• Knowledge and experience working with MVVM and clean architecture patterns.

• Human – Xeros are authentic, inclusive and really care.
• Challenge – Xeros dream big, lead and embrace change.
• Team – Xeros are great team players.
• Ownership – Xeros deliver on our commitments.
• Beautiful – Xeros create experiences that people love.

This position description is intended merely as a guideline of the responsibilities involved in the position. The employee is expected to perform any other duties as reasonably required by their Manager.