Senior Software Engineer- Bills

The role / impact
You will be joining the Bills team, a core product unit focused on digitizing spend management for over a million of our customers. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software that enhances business cash flow and saves time for our users. Our Bills product automates bill creation and management, approval workflows, and integrates with payment systems to streamline the entire process. You will directly influence the evolution of our product, ensuring we deliver robust solutions that empower small businesses to reach their potential.

The team / how they connect
This role sits within the Bills team, which operates as two agile, full-stack pods. You'll report to the Team Lead and work closely with product owners, designers, lead engineers, and adjacent engineering teams. The team is dedicated to writing clean, maintainable code and advocating for sustainable team practices. You will establish and maintain strong collaborations both within the development team and the wider organization, while playing a crucial role in mentoring intermediate developers to foster a culture of knowledge sharing.

The team are currently working on:

• Using React, Typescript, .NET, C#, AWS, SQL Server, and RESTful web services to write clean, maintainable systems.

• Working with modern AI tools to reduce developer toil.

• Building and maintaining unit, API, and end-to-end tests.

• Improving our deployment pipeline to reduce toil and risk.

• Collaborating with product owners and designers to scope, prototype, and develop new software specifications and designs.

• Maintaining awareness of risks, compliance, and regulatory obligations (financial regulations and data privacy) related to the Bills product area

• Monitoring and analyzing system health to ensure high performance and reliability

• Participating in an on-call rotation to support production systems

Where and how you can work

This role is based in our Toronto, Ontario office, where we foster a human-first culture designed for collaboration (complete with snacks and breakout areas). We are looking for candidates who are open to a hybrid setup to connect in person and take full advantage of our office environment when needed. Ultimately, we support flexible working and want you to balance your work and life in the way that suits you best.

Here are some of the things we are looking for in this role

• Experience designing, building, and maintaining large React apps (This is our highest priority).

• Proficiency in at least one modern backend stack (C# is a bonus; Java, Golang, C++ etc. perfectly acceptable) with experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs.

• Ability to lead initiatives independently from concept through delivery

• Strong collaboration skills and experience building relationships across teams to influence technical direction

• Experience and interest in learning about and advocating for the right AI enhanced tooling and solutions.

• Proven track record of contributing to architectural decisions and raising the technical bar through code reviews and mentoring

• Experience working with complex systems and monitoring their health

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and tools such as AWS and Terraform

Apply even if your experience isn't a perfect match! At Xero, we hire based on your skills, passion, and the unique perspective you can bring to enhance our culture and team.