Senior Engineer, Xero
CA$155-205k
+ Eligible to participate in our annual bonus and equity (RSU) programs
Accounting software for small businesses
Open for applications
Accounting software for small businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$155-205k
+ Eligible to participate in our annual bonus and equity (RSU) programs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for someone who cares about customer outcomes, writes high-quality software, and enjoys solving real product and platform problems with other strong engineers
- You bring strong experience in backend, platform, or product engineering, ideally in a SaaS environment with meaningful scale or complexity
- You have a track record of owning significant features, services, or initiatives end to end
- You have solid systems thinking and engineering judgement, and can make good technical decisions with a high degree of autonomy
- You have experience building for data-heavy or analytics-oriented use cases, with a good instinct for performance, correctness, and usability
- You’re comfortable working through ambiguity and can create clarity for yourself and others
- You stay hands-on and care deeply about code quality, testing, and production outcomes
- You communicate clearly and work well with engineers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders
- You enjoy mentoring others and helping lift the people and practices around you
- You’re curious about better ways of working, including AI-enabled tools and workflows, and use good judgement in applying them
What the job involves
- This is a hands-on Senior Engineer role in Xero’s Reporting team, helping build and improve one of the most-used parts of our product
- As a Senior Engineer, you’ll own meaningful work end to end, from shaping the problem and designing the approach through to delivery, production validation, and ongoing improvement
- Your work will have a direct impact on how small businesses and their advisors understand performance, complete important reporting and compliance tasks, and get to the right answers faster
- You’ll join Xero’s Reporting group, which builds experiences customers rely on to understand their numbers, share insights, and support key accounting and compliance workflows
- Reporting has real product depth, technical complexity, and customer impact. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll have meaningful end-to-end ownership and the chance to make visible improvements to a product customers rely on
- You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and adjacent platform teams. Success in this role comes from strong collaboration, good judgement, and the ability to move work forward while keeping quality, maintainability, and customer value in mind
- Owning meaningful reporting initiatives, services, or workstreams from design through rollout, production validation, and ongoing improvement
- Building and improving customer-facing reporting experiences, with a focus on clarity, usability, reliability, and performance
- Contributing to the modernisation of parts of the reporting platform and helping improve developer experience and delivery speed
- Working with shared data and platform capabilities across Xero where they support better reporting outcomes
- Writing high-quality, maintainable code and contributing strong design and code review feedback
- Handling complexity and ambiguity well, breaking problems into practical steps and making sound technical decisions
- Working closely with product, design, and other engineers to deliver useful, well-considered outcomes
- Supporting other engineers through mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and everyday technical leadership
- Helping raise the quality bar through testing, observability, operational readiness, and continuous improvement
Our take
For a long time, high-quality financial services have been reserved for large-scale businesses. Xero solves this problem by giving small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers access to best-in-class finance and accounting solutions.
Xero is one of the largest companies of its kind, with its promise to save time and effort for small business owners - who often don’t have in-house accounting teams - capturing interest and allowing the company to scale. It has a strong rival in Intuit QuickBooks, which offers similar services, but competes by being most effective for growing startups and having an incredibly simple user experience.
A series of acquisitions and partnerships, including the purchase of Instafile in 2018, have consolidated Xero’s market share. The company continues to add new integrations, such as with Vehocheck Workshop Manager, and the 2023-launched Beautiful Business Fund that will help small businesses accelerate growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington
Leadership
Prior to Xero, she founded Boardlist and Joyus. She also served as the CEO of Polyvore and as a President of Asia Pacific and Latin America Operations at Google.
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