Senior Mobile Engineer - React Native

Ship meaningful customer value: Build and evolve React Native experiences across some of Xero’s most important customer workflows, including banking, invoicing, payments, notifications, tasks and file management. You’ll own complex features end to end, contribute to technical design and work across the mobile/backend boundary to shape APIs and data flows that enable great customer experiences.

Evolve our React Native architecture: Help us build a modern, scalable mobile platform that enables teams to ship faster without compromising quality. You’ll contribute to architectural decisions, simplify complexity and help establish patterns that make React Native development more effective across the codebase.

Operate at scale: Take responsibility for the software you ship in production. You’ll help ensure availability, performance, accuracy, security and scalability, automate manual processes, identify recurring failure patterns and participate in incident response and post-mortems. With a large active customer base, your engineering decisions have real impact.

Improve engineering efficiency: Find ways to continuously improve how the team builds and delivers software. You’ll remove friction, simplify technical systems and use automation and AI-assisted development to shorten feedback loops and help the team move faster.

Raise the engineering bar: Make the engineers around you better. Through mentoring, technical guidance, thoughtful code reviews and strong engineering judgement, you’ll help improve both the quality of our software and the capability of the team. At this level, coaching and technical influence are as important as the code you ship.

This hybrid role is based in Melbourne or Sydney, with flexibility in how you work.

Our mobile engineering teams are distributed across both locations, with regular collaboration and dedicated boost days that bring teams together to solve problems, share knowledge and strengthen connections.

You have strong, demonstrable experience building and shipping production mobile applications using React Native.

You understand the realities of building mobile software at scale - including performance, reliability, release management, observability and what happens when something goes wrong in production.

You have owned complex mobile features end to end, from technical design and implementation through to release, measurement and ongoing operation.

You’re comfortable working across the mobile/backend boundary. Experience with mobile backend systems, APIs or Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) patterns is highly valuable.

You’ve shipped software to large, active user bases and understand how architectural and technical decisions change as systems and customer usage scale.

You make pragmatic technical decisions, balancing delivery speed, customer impact, system health and long-term maintainability.

You mentor and support other engineers with tangible outcomes, raising engineering standards through the way you collaborate, review code and approach technical problems.

You actively use AI-assisted development, automation and modern engineering tooling to improve your effectiveness and help teams deliver value faster.

Please apply even if your experience isn’t a perfect match. At Xero, we hire for capability, potential and the unique perspective you can bring to our teams and customers.