2 months ago
Sydney, Australia +3 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and scale production search systems handling hundreds of millions of documents globally.
- Contribute to Xero’s large-scale search platform rebuild and future search capabilities.
- Maintain cluster performance and reliability at 99.9% uptime.
- Contribute to search-specific and generalist software engineering work, including raising and reviewing pull requests.
- Lead engineering projects and collaborate with engineering, product, infrastructure, and ingestion-platform teams.
- Work effectively with distributed colleagues across Australia and New Zealand.
Requirements
- Strong experience in search engineering and operating production search systems at scale.
- Solid software engineering and development fundamentals.
- Ability to contribute to both search-specific and generalist engineering work.
- High standards for code quality and code review.
- Strong collaborative skills across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.
- Exposure to data or AI tooling is preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Flexible work location within Australia or New Zealand.
- The team meets in Melbourne approximately every six months for in-person collaboration.
- Optional boost days allow employees to work from the office and collaborate with the broader Xero community.
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About Xero
Xero builds cloud-based accounting software for small businesses and their advisors, covering invoicing, bank reconciliation, payroll, expenses, and reporting. It sells subscriptions and supports an extensive ecosystem of connected bank feeds and third‑party apps via APIs and an app marketplace. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, Xero is a public company dual‑listed on the NZX and ASX.