Jobs at Xero

Develop and operate scalable backend payment services using C#, .NET Core, and AWS. Modernize monolithic systems into microservices, resolve database scalability and legacy challenges, improve APIs, automate processes, and apply testing and continuous integration practices. Collaborate across teams, communicate with stakeholders, contribute to technical planning, and mentor colleagues. The role is hybrid and based onsite in Vancouver, with potential travel to New Zealand for onboarding.

Design, build, and operationalize agentic AI workflows and applications across internal business teams. Integrate AI systems with enterprise platforms, create reusable automation patterns, and develop evaluation and monitoring frameworks for safe, auditable AI workflows. Partner with nontechnical stakeholders to translate business needs into solutions, lead production delivery, and coach teams on AI adoption.

Build and operate reliable, customer-facing reporting software for Xero. Develop flexible financial reporting experiences, improve data-intensive query performance, ensure calculation accuracy, and create shared reporting capabilities for other product teams. Own engineering work from design through production, collaborate with Product and Design, support scalable systems, and apply AI tools to engineering workflows and verification.

Build and operate reliable, secure, scalable backend payment platforms supporting orchestration, provider integrations, onboarding, verification, risk, reconciliation, disputes, ledgers, and money movement. The role requires sound distributed-systems design, transactional accuracy, observability, automated testing, pragmatic architecture, and cross-functional collaboration. Engineers will also explore AI and automation while maintaining appropriate controls and human oversight.

Leads Xero’s Vancouver Payments Platform engineering team, owning delivery, staffing, operational health, hiring, performance, and career development. Guides priorities, engineering practices, quality standards, on-call processes, and platform delivery for distributed payment systems, including orchestration, fraud and risk, bill payments, and multi-provider capabilities. Partners with product and technical leaders to deliver reliable systems, modernize architecture, develop engineering talent, and apply AI-assisted development responsibly.

Engineer AI-enabled automation, integrations, workflows, and guardrails across Xero’s Atlassian, Google Workspace, Slack, and internal AI ecosystem. Own production systems, solve complex technical challenges, improve reliability, contribute to architecture and engineering standards, maintain documentation, and support or mentor teammates. The role requires hands-on scripting, API and integration design, cloud productivity systems expertise, security awareness, and strong communication in a hybrid Vancouver-based team.

Develop and operate scalable backend software for Xero’s Accounting Core platform. Modernize monolithic systems into AWS-based microservices using C# and .NET Core, address legacy and database scalability challenges, improve APIs, automate processes, and apply test-driven and trunk-based development. Collaborate across teams, communicate with stakeholders, mentor colleagues, and contribute to technical excellence and developer efficiency.

Lead the design and implementation of scalable distributed systems, modernize monolithic applications, and improve developer experience through CI/CD, automated testing, refactoring, and TDD. Make major architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers through complex technical challenges. Collaborate with product owners and designers in an agile environment while building and operating reliable software for millions of users.

Lead development of highly available, distributed payments platform services and global bill payment capabilities. Design scalable, secure, high-throughput backend systems, APIs, and database solutions while integrating multiple payment providers and risk controls. Contribute hands-on production code and proofs of concept, establish technical direction, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and promote AI tools that improve engineering productivity.

Build and operate scalable backend software for Xero’s Accounting Core platform. Responsibilities include migrating monolithic systems to microservices, developing cloud services with C#/.NET Core and AWS, resolving legacy and database scalability challenges, modernizing APIs, automating processes, applying test-driven and trunk-based development, collaborating with stakeholders, and mentoring teammates.

Manages a distributed team of three data scientists while personally leading North American marketing measurement. Responsibilities include campaign and event measurement, churn analysis, funnel effectiveness, AI-driven insight generation, and agentic analytics. The role requires translating complex analysis into actionable recommendations, partnering with marketing teams, coaching across time zones, and establishing sustainable delivery practices.

Design, build, and operate scalable distributed systems for millions of users. Modernize monolithic systems, improve CI/CD and testing practices, make major architectural decisions, develop technical solutions, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product owners and designers in an agile hybrid environment while maintaining high standards for software quality, reliability, and technical excellence.

Lead the design, delivery, and operation of agentic AI workflows and applications from discovery through production. Partner with business teams to automate complex workflows, integrate AI with enterprise platforms, and establish reusable patterns, guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and monitoring. Collaborate with product owners and subject-matter experts, translate business needs into technical solutions, and coach teams to improve AI fluency and adoption.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.