2024/5 Intern Engineer

2 weeks ago


Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Xero Full time
Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.


At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.

This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do.

We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections.

Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.


Our eligibility criteria for internships are:

  • Availability for full-time work from November 2024 through to February 202
  • Be in your the penultimate year of study in your chosen field

The role
Our engineering interns are involved in everything from designing, discovering, developing and testing solutions.

Engineering interns work in our product teams to develop the core Xero product and in our technology teams writing software to support the Xero product behind the scenes.

Our teams are made up of full-stack engineers, front-end and back-end specialists, and quality engineers. You'll work with technologies like AWS, C#, React, Swift, and SQL.


As an intern engineer you'll have the opportunity to work in one of our Xero teams, innovating new features, fixing bugs and enhancing functionality.


Our previous interns have been involved with:

  • working in a fast-paced environment that applies the agile methodology of software development, with frequent releases and continuous planning and improvement
- writing code for new features or bug fixes, to be deployed to a production environment
- learning about architectural concerns within a large enterprise stack

How to apply:


If you are eligible for this role and you pass the initial eligibility stage, you will be sent a selection of online assessments (behavioural and technical) as well as a video interview via Talegent.

If successful from our online assessments, you will be invited to a Grad Day which will include technical and soft skills interviews, as well as group and individual challenges.

Our Grad Days will be held from mid-late May 2024.

Why Xero?
At Xero we pride ourselves on our award-winning junior talent programs.

In 2021 alone, we won the NZAGE Best Graduate Development program and were ranked as the top Graduate Employer by GradNew Zealand.

Our junior talent programs are focused on learning and wellbeing.

Xero supports many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions.

Our work environment encourages continuous improvement and career development and you'll get to work with the latest technology too.

As part of our junior talent program, you'll have access to a people lead, buddy and team lead to support you in your wellbeing and professional development.



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