About the role

Engineer building scalable reporting software for Xero’s small-business customers. Improving financial data performance, correctness, traceability, and customer-facing reporting experiences.

Responsibilities

Build software that helps small businesses understand performance, trust their numbers, and make informed decisions
Build flexible reporting experiences for combining business data, reshaping views, saving configurations, and exploring underlying transactions
Improve reporting engine performance so complex queries remain responsive as data volumes and customer needs grow
Keep calculations accurate and results up to date when transactions are corrected or source data changes
Create shared reporting capabilities, including consistent calculations, permissions, and performance patterns, for other product teams
Make reported numbers easier to inspect and trace back to their source while preserving existing reports, layouts, and workflows
Use AI to improve engineering workflows and verification, and explore ways for customers to describe financial questions and shape reports
Own work from early investigation through production, potentially including customer-facing reporting capabilities, performance improvements, or shared platform components
Collaborate with Product, Design, and other engineers
Contribute to the Vancouver team’s technology and ways of working
Participate in testing, deployment, and production support

Strong software engineering experience and a track record of delivering and operating reliable software in production
Practical experience working with data-intensive systems, relational databases, or complex queries
Understanding of how design choices affect performance
Ability to build automated checks for data correctness, calculations, and system behaviour
Ability to work through ambiguous problems, weigh technical trade-offs, and deliver useful improvements without overcomplicating solutions
Ownership across the delivery lifecycle, including customer needs, approach definition, testing, deployment, and production support
Clear communication and collaboration with Product, Design, and engineering partners
Interest in applying AI tools to engineering work, with judgement to verify outputs and accountability for quality
Experience with reporting, analytics, or financial software is valuable

Annual bonus eligibility for permanent employees
Equity (RSU) program eligibility for permanent employees
Performance-based cash or equity incentives depending on role level and company performance
World-class health, wellness, and retirement programs
Wellbeing days
Generous leave
Dedicated professional development budgets
Hybrid work model with one to two days per week in the office and flexibility to work from home on other days