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.
The role
You will be a member of a team who are building a stream-oriented data platform. It's designed to speed up product development. The focus is on operational data, not analytics. We aim to build a foundational platform that supplies real-time information to other product teams so they can build products and features quickly.
We use technologies like Flink, Kafka, and Java. The platform is hosted on AWS and uses DynamoDB and Apache Doris to store data. We're looking for senior software engineers with big data and stream processing experience who can operate confidently at the intersection of application and data engineering.

In order to be successful in this role, you will need:

Self-awareness and a growth mindset
A strong commitment to collaboration
Openness to learning from failure
The ability to bring clarity when things are ambiguous: you seek the answers you need and keep moving forward
Strong software engineering experience
Experience with at least some of the following technologies - Flink, Java, Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, Dynamo DB

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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