Associate Engineer - Billing

About the team and role In Subscription & Billing, we collect over a billion dollars of revenue every year. Our vision is to be the billing product for Xero that scales quickly, integrates easily, enables insights while delighting customers with a beautiful self-service experience. We're looking for an Associate Engineer to join our team and be based either in Wellington or Auckland. What you'll do

• Create software - Develop robust high quality software with guidance from senior engineers.
• Test software - Design and perform testing activities that reveal specific quality levels of a product in relation to identified risks and acceptance criteria.
• Resolve issues - Effectively triage and resolve issues identified during the development lifecycle or in production, and assist with the root cause analysis. May justify the significance of a problem to stakeholders in technical terms.
• Engineering standards & frameworks - Develop and deploy software in accordance with Xero standards.
• Continuous improvement - Grow knowledge of current and emerging development technologies and methodologies. Understand the competencies of the role and work through a development plan.
• Deliver infrastructure in a production environment - Contribute to automation of delivery processes, monitoring and alerting. Maintain build & deployment infrastructure with guidance.
• Modern software and delivery practices - Practice agile software development. Proactively work to improve team processes.

• At least 1 year of professional work experience.
• Proficient in using a primary language and ecosystem to maintain and extend the team's products. We use .NET/C# for our backend and React for frontend.
• Confidence in debugging and resolving locally.
• Able to regularly make minor code design decisions.
• Experience in maintaining team's APIs and client code.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices including CI/CD, containerization, configuration, monitoring, alerting. We primarily use AWS.