Senior Engineer

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 role:

As a Senior Android Engineer, you'll be joining one of the dedicated teams that primarily work on mobile apps, either owning the signup flow (including in-app purchases), or, our payments space.

Our mobile teams are multi-disciplinary, with specialists in iOS, Android, and Backend Engineering all within a single team, working together to craft software for Xero's native mobile products.

Our team is distributed across Australia and New Zealand, where we work collaboratively with cross-functions such as Design, Marketing, and Product. This has enabled multiple achievements, such as Apple's "App of the Day" in April & May 2025.

We're all about driving delivery, by getting value into the hands of our customers: Building app features that are reliable and scalable. We like to constantly improve our work with research, experiments, health monitoring, and prototyping. Essentially, we're involved in every step of the product journey for Xero's millions of users.

We're not just looking for someone who's great at coding, we want somebody who can move the needle on results. We want someone who loves to help others grow. You'll be crucial in making architectural decisions, implementation decisions, offering technical guidance, and mentoring to fellow developers.

We're looking for somebody who can be agnostic in their decision making, so your expertise can help anybody within the team. We'll count on you to keep a finger on the pulse of the latest technologies and seize opportunities to incorporate them into our mobile team's work, this can be within the industry, but also within Xero's engineering space too.

What you'll bring to the role:

- You'll be joining a high-impact team, so previous experience in a senior engineer role is preferred.

- An appetite to understand and learn the rest of the stacks (iOS, Backend - preferably C#) is beneficial.

- Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers.

- Previous exposure to working in a similar product based environment to Xero, with collaboration being a key part of your typical working model

A technical fluency in Android is essential, especially in the following areas:

- Kotlin & Coroutines

- Testing knowledge – including unit testing, etc.

- Dependency Injection – XAA heavily relies on DI (Hilt), so I believe this is also a must-have skill.

- Jetpack Compose – something we expect candidates to use, as almost all new screens are built with Compose.

- Knowledge and experience working with MVVM and clean architecture patterns.

• Continually delivering results through writing code and code reviews.
• Lead and/or participate in technical and architectural discussions
• Working in a cross-functional environment, you'll work with Product, Design & Data peers to design, prototype and implement product features.
• Identify opportunities in current technology and architecture to recommend solutions, including tech improvements for stability, monitoring, and fault tolerance.
• Provide input when engineers in the team need help, offering technical guidance and mentoring to help them grow and be the best version of themselves.
• Keep an ear to the ground in an effort to stay up to date with mobile development technologies; identify and promote opportunities to make use of these technologies within the mobile team.

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, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, 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.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we're immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. Our goal is to make sure you feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.