Senior Engineer - Android

Xero
Auckland
Full time
3 weeks ago
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.

What you'll do:

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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