Senior Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Engineer owning Xero reporting initiatives end to end. Improving accounting experiences, platform reliability, and compliance workflows for small businesses and advisors.

Responsibilities

  • Own meaningful reporting initiatives, services, or workstreams from design through rollout, production validation, and ongoing improvement
  • Build and improve customer-facing reporting experiences focused on clarity, usability, reliability, and performance
  • Contribute to modernising parts of the reporting platform and improving developer experience and delivery speed
  • Work with shared data and platform capabilities across Xero to support better reporting outcomes
  • Write high-quality, maintainable code and provide design and code review feedback
  • Break complex or ambiguous problems into practical steps and make sound technical decisions
  • Collaborate with product, design, engineers, and adjacent platform teams
  • Mentor engineers through knowledge-sharing and everyday technical leadership
  • Improve quality through testing, observability, operational readiness, and continuous improvement
  • Help small businesses and their advisors understand performance and complete reporting and compliance tasks

Requirements

  • Strong experience in backend, platform, or product engineering
  • Experience ideally in a SaaS environment with meaningful scale or complexity
  • Track record of owning significant features, services, or initiatives end to end
  • Solid systems thinking and engineering judgement
  • Ability to make good technical decisions with a high degree of autonomy
  • Experience building for data-heavy or analytics-oriented use cases
  • Understanding of performance, correctness, and usability
  • Ability to work through ambiguity and create clarity
  • Hands-on approach and strong commitment to code quality, testing, and production outcomes
  • Clear communication and ability to work with engineers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders
  • Interest in mentoring others and improving engineering practices
  • Curiosity about AI-enabled tools and workflows, with good judgement in applying them
  • Must have working rights for the country this role is based in; visa assistance may be relevant depending on status

Benefits

  • Annual bonus program
  • Equity (RSU) programs
  • Performance-based cash or equity (RSUs) incentives depending on role level and company performance
  • World-class health, wellness, and retirement programs
  • Wellbeing days
  • Generous leave
  • Dedicated professional development budgets
  • Flexible working model (hybrid)

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$155,000 - CA$205,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridVancouverCanada

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