Trusted by 4.4M+ around the world on the most loved SMB accounting platform.
Xero's Community Guidelines: https://www.xero.com/support/community-guidelines/

Xero

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Xero is a cloud-based accounting software company that provides bookkeeping, invoicing, payroll, bank reconciliation, VAT/MTD compliance, and financial analytics for small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers. It offers an app marketplace for integrations, online invoice payments, partner programs for accountants and bookkeepers, and AI-powered automation (JAX) to streamline routine financial tasks.

Trusted by 4.4M+ around the world on the most loved SMB accounting platform.

Xero's Community Guidelines: https://www.xero.com/support/community-guidelines/

• Lead, grow, and manage a leadership team and their engineering teams
• Provide technical oversight across the engineering portfolio
• Ensure engineering teams actively measuring, monitoring, and continuously improving performance
• Align strategies of building and testing software
• Build and lead an effective team of engineering leaders and practitioners
• Effectively manage the engineering team's budget and provide adequate support for product SLOs
• Ensure cohesive understanding of product group strategy and support prioritization for engineering initiatives
• Report on technical initiatives for stakeholders
• Advocate ongoing commitment to enablement strategy for software
• Lead initiatives to improve onboarding, training, and knowledge sharing
• Follow Xero's people management processes for direct and indirect reports

VP Engineering

VP Engineering leading engineering teams to deliver high-quality software solutions at Xero. Ensuring strategic alignment in building and enabling small businesses with technology.

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• You will focus on solving engineering problems at scale, moving beyond simple feature development to influence the architecture and implementation of distributed systems.
• By refactoring complex, monolithic systems and building high-quality, scalable software, your work directly ensures the platform remains robust and reliable for millions of users.
• This role offers the autonomy to make major code design decisions and contribute to global engineering standards.
• You will balance technical excellence with mentorship, acting as a role model for the team and helping to coach others through complex technical challenges.
• You will join a collaborative environment where engineers, product owners, and designers work together using agile and delivery practices to ship meaningful code.
• The team prioritizes continuous learning and mastery, frequently participating in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions to maintain a high bar for technical craft.
• Initially, you will focus on modernizing systems by refactoring monolithic components into distributed, scalable architectures.
• Enhancing the developer experience through the maturation of CI/CD concepts, tooling, and TDD practices.
• Building and maintaining a diverse tech stack that includes C#, .Net, React, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Developing and implementing technical solution designs that align with long-term engineering frameworks.

Engineer

Engineer delivering scalable systems and refactoring monolithic architectures for millions of users. Collaborating with cross-functional teams in a hybrid working environment.

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• Drive the delivery of high-quality software by leading high-performing, inclusive teams.
• Act as a technical anchor, maintaining informed opinions on system health and code quality.
• Ensure the team's roadmap is delivered predictably while balancing delivery velocity and operational excellence.
• Champion AI Engineering by encouraging the team to integrate AI across the entire SDLC.
• Drive high engineering throughput through strong architecture, code quality, and decoupling legacy systems.
• Elevate the Developer Experience by identifying and removing the "complexity tax."
• Scale system health and visibility to ensure product status and technical debt are actionable and discoverable.

Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager driving software delivery and team performance at Xero. Leading technical initiatives and guiding teams in AI-driven engineering practices and system improvements.

full-stack-engineer

• Focus on solving engineering problems at scale, moving beyond feature delivery to influence the architecture and implementation of distributed systems.
• Refactor complex, monolithic systems and build high-quality, scalable software to ensure platform robustness and reliability.
• Make major code design decisions and contribute to global engineering standards with technical excellence and mentorship.
• Join a collaborative environment working with engineers, product owners, and designers using agile and delivery practices.
• Modernise systems by refactoring monolithic components into distributed, scalable architectures.
• Enhance the developer experience through maturation of CI/CD concepts, tooling, and TDD practices.
• Build and maintain a diverse tech stack that includes C#, .Net, React, AWS, and Kubernetes.

Lead Engineer

Lead Engineer solving engineering problems at scale for Xero. Focus on architecture and implementation of distributed systems.

• As a Principal Engineer, you will be a visionary technical leader, driving the long-term architectural evolution of Xero’s global platform.
• You will act as a bridge between high-level business strategy and technical execution, identifying and mitigating systemic risks before they manifest.
• Your influence will be felt through the creation of global engineering standards and the cultivation of a world-class technical culture.
• You will be part of a senior leadership collective, collaborating with executive stakeholders, product directors, and other principal engineers to define the future of our technology stack.
• Initially, you will focus on architecting and overseeing the transition of critical global infrastructure to next-generation distributed patterns.
• Leading the technical response to large-scale, ambiguous challenges that span multiple domains and regions.
• Establishing and championing the global "golden path" for developer experience, security, and operational excellence.
• Driving the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and methodologies that keep Xero at the forefront of the fintech industry.

Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer leading architectural evolution of Xero's global platform and influencing global engineering standards. Collaborating with executive stakeholders and driving innovation in fintech.

• You will focus on solving engineering problems at scale, moving beyond feature delivery to influence the architecture and implementation of distributed systems.
• By refactoring complex, monolithic systems and building high-quality, scalable software, your work ensures our platform remains robust and reliable for millions of global users.
• As a senior member of the team, you will have the autonomy to make major code design decisions and contribute to global engineering standards.
• You will balance technical excellence with mentorship, acting as a role model and coaching others through complex technical challenges to help them grow.
• You will join a collaborative environment where engineers, product owners, and designers work together using agile and delivery practices to ship meaningful code.
• The team prioritises continuous learning and mastery, frequently participating in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions to maintain a high bar for technical craft.
• Initially, you will focus on modernising systems by refactoring monolithic components into distributed, scalable architectures, and enhancing the developer experience through the maturation of CI/CD concepts, tooling, and TDD practices.

Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer solving engineering problems at scale and influencing architecture at Xero. Focusing on refactoring systems and enhancing developer experiences with scalable software.

research-scientist

• Researching and implementing Generative AI solutions using the latest LLM APIs.
• Developing hybrid machine learning approaches merging Generative AI with classical techniques for better accuracy.
• Designing and deploying scalable machine learning systems to solve real-world product problems.
• Building data pipelines and wrangling complex datasets to support AI-driven features.

Senior Applied Scientist

Senior Applied Scientist researching and implementing Generative AI solutions at Xero. Collaborating with teams across North America to enhance customer interactions through AI.

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