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Xero is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to build and maintain Xero Me's mobile applications, part of the Payroll product suite used by small businesses. This role focuses on helping employees and employers manage critical payroll and workforce moments—pay, leave, timesheets, expenses, and documents—with reliability and excellence.
You will drive high-velocity product delivery while ensuring system security, scalability, and performance across native iOS/Android apps and supporting services. This is a hands-on technical leadership position where you combine engineering excellence with mentorship, directly improving the employee experience at scale while elevating the entire team's engineering craft.
A key aspect of this opportunity is the chance to evolve as a cross-platform engineer. Xero is intentionally transitioning from platform-specific to cross-platform mobile engineering, and this role places you at the center of that transformation. You'll deepen your expertise in Android while building real fluency in iOS, gaining increasingly valuable and rare skills. You'll contribute to shaping shared engineering practices across both platforms, giving you architectural influence beyond a single ecosystem.
You'll work alongside engineers who care deeply about craft, mentorship, and learning. The team is committed to raising capability rather than just shipping. You'll have meaningful code review influence, direct mentoring of engineers who will grow under your guidance, and a voice in shaping engineering practices across mobile and backend teams.
The tech stack is modern—native mobile at scale, modern cloud platforms, and thoughtful AI adoption for productivity. The role offers hybrid flexibility between Melbourne and Sydney, high-velocity delivery without burnout, and the opportunity to move from being a strong engineer to someone who shapes culture and capability across the organization.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Android engineering excellence: deep mastery of performance optimization, accessibility, testing strategies, release management, and platform conventions; proven track record of building robust apps at scale
- AI-native development mindset: practical experience using AI tools (copilots, code generation, debugging tools) to improve productivity while maintaining sound judgment about correctness, security, privacy, and avoiding over-reliance
- Cross-platform fluency: solid understanding of iOS conventions and ability to collaborate meaningfully with iOS engineers on shared architectural decisions; valued ability to contribute to backend services, API design, and service integration
- Hands-on API and service development: experience designing or evolving service endpoints, API contracts, and integrations (exposure to .NET, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD is valuable)
- Customer-first thinking: ability to connect technical decisions to employee, employer, and business outcomes
- Growth mindset under ambiguity: comfort with change and shifting direction; ability to help the team find clarity and make pragmatic trade-offs
- Bias for action: preference for incremental delivery and learning through execution over analysis paralysis
- Communication discipline: translating business needs into technical solutions and explaining constraints/trade-offs with data-driven clarity
- Mentorship and raising the bar: genuine commitment to helping others grow; thoughtful code reviews, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback that elevate team capability
