Jobs at Xero

Lead long-term technical direction and architecture for Product Platform Engineering. Modernize and decouple a legacy accounting monolith into resilient APIs and microservices, drive platform reliability and scalability, establish engineering principles and guardrails for AI-native and autonomous workflows, and align senior stakeholders around architectural strategy.

Design, build, and deploy production-grade backend generative AI solutions. Convert ambiguous R&D into scalable, secure production software, own deployed code, optimize ML architecture and infrastructure, and collaborate with product and R&D teams to elevate technical capabilities.

Lead cross-team technical strategy and architecture for large-scale cloud-native systems. Drive CI/CD automation, microservice refactoring, SLOs, technical frameworks, and operational metrics. Mentor lead engineers, improve engineering practices, and balance technical debt with product delivery to enable secure, scalable solutions for small-business customers.

The Lead Engineer will solve engineering problems, modernise systems, enhance the developer experience, and mentor other engineers while building high-quality software.

Lead and grow multiple engineering teams to deliver high-quality software, drive technical modernisation (monolith to decoupled services, API-first), champion responsible AI, and improve operational excellence. Partner with Product and Design, execute complex cross-team programs, define hiring strategies, and foster a high-performance, inclusive culture focused on reliability, observability, and measurable product outcomes.

Lead refactoring of monolithic systems into distributed, scalable architectures. Influence architecture and design, improve CI/CD and developer experience, implement automated testing and TDD, mentor engineers, and deliver high-quality, highly available software for millions of users.

Lead the technical vision and execution for Xero's API platform, designing external-facing APIs and SDKs, consolidating services via a Supergraph, replacing legacy endpoints, and enabling CI/CD. Drive platform reliability, event-driven designs (webhooks, message queues, pub/sub), and AI/LLM-safe interfaces. Influence cross-team technical strategy, mentor engineers, and partner with product, AI/ML, and developer relations to scale multi-tenant SaaS platform capabilities.

Senior engineer responsible for refactoring monoliths into scalable distributed systems, improving CI/CD and developer experience, designing technical solutions, and mentoring engineers. Deliver and operate high-availability software across a stack including C#, .NET, React, AWS, and Kubernetes while driving engineering standards and technical excellence.

Lead end-to-end design and delivery of reporting features and platform improvements. Build reliable, high-performance, data-heavy customer-facing reporting experiences, mentor engineers, drive testing, observability, and continuous improvement, and collaborate with product, design, and platform teams.

Build and maintain reliable, scalable cloud-based APIs and services across the full stack. Improve engineering practices, use AI tools to boost productivity, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with product and design to deliver quality software.

Lead architecture and refactor monolithic systems into scalable distributed platforms. Drive technical solution design, improve CI/CD and TDD practices, mentor engineers, and maintain high-quality software using C#, .NET, React, AWS, and Kubernetes in a hybrid Vancouver team.

Lead the design, delivery, and operationalisation of agentic AI workflows and agents from discovery to production. Build integrations with enterprise systems, reusable automation patterns, and monitoring frameworks while partnering with stakeholders and evangelising safe, auditable AI automation across the business.

The Lead Engineer will shape the technical direction for Xero's API and SDK, focusing on optimizing the developer experience and building reliable APIs that enable intelligent automation for external partners.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team to deliver roadmaps with high code quality and system health. Champion AI-native workflows, drive architectural modernization, improve developer experience, decouple legacy systems, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Design to deliver predictable outcomes.

Lead a new Vancouver engineering hub to improve planning, estimation, and delivery cadence. Drive migration from Microsoft SQL Server to Aurora Postgres and DynamoDB, build internal compliance and observability tooling, and apply AI tooling to surface database insights. Shield team from external pressures, remove dependencies, and maintain high system quality while scaling a distributed engineering group.

Design, build, and operate scalable backend services for accounting core systems. Migrate monolith to microservices, solve database scalability issues, implement resilient distributed systems, automate processes and CI/CD, apply test-driven practices, and collaborate across teams while mentoring peers and engaging stakeholders.