Senior Engineer, Xero
API
CA$130.4-180.4k
1-5 days a week in office
Accounting software for small businesses
Be an early applicant
Accounting software for small businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$130.4-180.4k
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.
Role
Who you are
- You bring deep knowledge of backend or platform development within large-scale distributed systems
- Designing and maintaining external or internal platform APIs and SDKs is a core strength you offer
- Your curiosity about AI-powered products helps you design interfaces that allow agents to safely orchestrate complex accounting workflows
- You enjoy coaching and mentoring others, sharing your knowledge to lift team performance and foster technical growth
- A commitment to driving best practices allows you to champion engineering standards like automated testing and quality reviews
- Navigating obstacles and building alignment with product and design teams is something you excel at through clear communication
- Apply even if your experience isn't a perfect match! At Xero, we hire based on your skills, passion, and the unique perspective you can bring to enhance our culture and team
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineer and valuable individual contributor in our Product Platform division, you will lead the delivery of high-impact, customer-focused API and SDK solutions
- You will treat APIs as first-class products, balancing external developer experience with internal platform consistency to ensure our interfaces are reliable, scalable, and a joy to integrate with
- Your work will be a key enabler for AI and agent-driven automation across accounting workflows, providing the foundation for intelligent product experiences
- By designing safe and composable API surfaces, you will help small businesses become more efficient and empower them with big business technology
- The team and how they connect
- You will join our new API Platform team in Vancouver, which focuses on positioning APIs as Xero’s core product surface
- We work together to deliver the API pillar of our technical strategy that supports AI, mobile, and ecosystem use cases
- Our current technical stack includes an open source graph technologies powered by gRPC, and backend services built in modern languages like C#, Go, or Java
- We are standing up a developer platform to provide a seamless path from domain models to running APIs integrated with CI/CD and production runtimes
- You will help deliver across core accounting and tax domains using the Supergraph model to consolidate our technical stack and developer experience
- The team is beginning a legacy burndown to replace or front expensive back-channel endpoints with coherent, strongly-typed interfaces and stable contracts
- This role is based in our Vancouver office. We embrace a hybrid working model that balances the flexibility of remote work with purposeful in-person collaboration
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
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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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