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.
About the team:
This specific position is pivotal in supporting the integration of Syft Analytics into our ecosystem to accelerate our mission to provide powerful insights. Syft Analytics is a leading global cloud-based reporting, insights, and analytics platform.
For more information, please check out this post from our CEO, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy!
About the role:
As an Engineer at Xero, you’ll play a crucial role in building reliable, scalable solutions. You’ll contribute directly to our products while helping your team adopt strong development practices. This is a hands-on, "on the tools" role. You'll play a key role in integrating analytics tools into our ecosystem and building beautiful analytics from the ground up, creating experiences that turn complex data into clear, actionable insights for our customers.We believe that a solid technical foundation and strong growth mindset are the keys to success in Software Engineering. You won’t find a long list of must-have tech requirements below!
What you'll do
- Stay hands-on: Dedicate at least 50% of your time to technical tasks, including code and design reviews, technical kick-offs, legacy code exploration, proof-of-concept development, and incident response.
- Lead by example: Set the technical direction for the team, mentor team members, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
- Drive innovation: Encourage experimentation and the adoption of new technologies to improve our products and processes.
- Collaborate effectively: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Solve complex problems: Tackle challenging technical problems and find innovative solutions.
What you'll bring to the role
- Previous experience as a Senior Software Engineer, with a track record of delivering high-quality software solutions at scale.
- Must be proficient in Node.js (Express) and React, with a demonstrated ability to build scalable and reliable solutions using these technologies.
- Extensive hands-on experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks and backend systems, including full lifecycle ownership of production-level codebases.
- Demonstrated success mentoring junior engineers and establishing technical best practices within teams.
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, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
Xero Singapore Office
Xero Singapore Office
18 Cross Street, Singapore, 048423
