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Senior Mobile Engineer - iOS/Android in Australia

  • Sydney

Responsibilities

  • Own complex mobile features end to end, from technical design and implementation through release, measurement, and ongoing operation.
  • Build and evolve mobile experiences for banking, invoicing, payments, notifications, tasks, and file management.
  • Contribute to Xero’s transition from native iOS and Android development toward React Native.
  • Make architectural decisions involving native platforms, cross-platform boundaries, platform integration, performance, debugging, and native modules.
  • Work across the mobile/backend boundary to shape APIs, data flows, and Backend-for-Frontend patterns.
  • Operate software at scale by supporting availability, performance, accuracy, security, scalability, incident response, and post-mortems.
  • Improve engineering efficiency through automation, AI-assisted development, and technical simplification.
  • Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, and raise engineering standards.

Requirements

  • Strong demonstrable experience building and shipping production mobile applications using Swift and/or Kotlin.
  • Deep knowledge of iOS and/or Android mobile engineering, including performance, lifecycle management, release processes, observability, reliability, and production operations.
  • Willingness to develop React Native capability and help shape the transition to a cross-platform architecture.
  • Experience owning complex mobile features through technical design, implementation, release, measurement, and ongoing operation.
  • Experience with mobile backend systems, APIs, or Backend-for-Frontend patterns is highly valuable.
  • Experience shipping software to large, active user bases and making technical decisions for scale.
  • Pragmatic technical judgment balancing delivery speed, customer impact, system health, and maintainability.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor and support other engineers and improve engineering standards.
  • Active use of AI-assisted development, automation, and modern engineering tooling.
  • Curiosity, adaptability, collaboration, and openness to new technologies and ways of working.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement based in Melbourne or Sydney, with flexibility in how you work.
  • Regular collaboration and dedicated boost days for teams across both locations.
  • Opportunity to influence the architecture of a flagship mobile product used by millions of small businesses.
  • Partnership with Anthropic and access to AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Xero

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