Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

Xero is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join their team focused on uplifting and governing Cloud Platforms, with a focus on GCP. The role involves hands-on problem-solving at scale in the GCP environment, building resilient and scalable systems, and automating security services. The ideal candidate will have experience with GCP, IAM, Compute, Networking, Cloud Storage, and Databases. They should have a background in Security Engineering, understand network and system administration, and be willing to write code in Python and other scripting languages. The role includes participating in a 24/7 on-call roster, coaching and mentoring other engineers, and working collaboratively in an agile environment. Xero offers generous benefits, including flexible paid leave, wellbeing programs, medical insurance, and 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers. The company values inclusivity and diversity, having won an award for "Best place to work for Women in Security in New Zealand". Xero's purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world, which sits at the center of everything they do.

Senior Security Engineer role at Xero, focusing on GCP security and cloud platform governance.

Senior Security Engineer - GCP

Xero is seeking a Principal Engineer for Reporting & Insights to drive engineering excellence and build global engineering teams. This role will focus on integrating the recently acquired Syft Analytics platform to accelerate Xero's mission of providing powerful insights. The position requires regular late hours (5pm-8pm AEST, Tue, Wed, Thu) for the first 12 months due to collaboration with a South Africa-based delivery team.

As a Principal Engineer, you will:
- Act as a role model for engineering excellence and high performance
- Drive company-wide multi-year goals
- Design and evaluate system architectures
- Influence technical strategy and partner with senior leadership
- Spread knowledge through talks, blog posts, or documentation
- Collaborate across functions to align technical solutions with business needs
- Grow talent by identifying and closing skill gaps

Key responsibilities include:
- Breaking down silos and facilitating cross-functional relationships
- Owning and delivering company-wide multi-year goals
- Designing scalable, reliable, and performant system architectures
- Driving engineering-wide processes and best practices
- Lifting team performance through leadership and coaching
- Staying current with technology trends
- Making architectural decisions and understanding complex systems
- Fostering a culture of experimentation and continuous empathy towards customers

The ideal candidate will have:
- Proven experience in a similar software engineering position
- Expertise in leading data platform engineering teams
- Strong understanding of experimentation methodologies
- Leadership skills to influence without authority
- Deep knowledge of relevant technologies (CDC, AWS, GCP)

Xero offers generous benefits, including flexible paid leave, health insurance, life insurance, income protection, wellbeing programs, 26 weeks of paid parental leave, an Employee Share Plan, and career development opportunities.

Xero seeks a Principal Engineer for Reporting & Insights to drive engineering excellence, integrate Syft Analytics, and lead global teams in providing powerful business insights.

Principal Engineer - Reporting & Insights

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. Our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do.

The "Catalyst Engineering" portfolio is Xero's platform engineering and developer enablement function, responsible for powering Xero's engineers and Partner Ecosystem with platforms and toolchains to rapidly build innovative, robust, and secure products. The team is at the forefront of technology adoption for Xero and includes some of the best technology talent.

Quality Enablement owns the Xero engineering quality approach, provides embedded support for key initiatives, and drives AI tooling and Education uplift for engineering teams.

As a Senior Engineer in Engineering Enablement, you'll work with technologies like .Net framework/.Net Core, AWS services, Kubernetes & Docker, GHA/TeamCity for CICD, Terraform for IaC, and LaunchDarkly.

We look for engineers with:
- Previous experience using .net framework and AWS
- Self-awareness and growth mindset
- Openness to learning from failure
- Honesty, transparency, and encouraging feedback
- Teamwork, collaboration, and mentorship skills
- Customer and product focus
- Commitment to supporting an inclusive culture and upholding Xero's values

At Xero, you'll enjoy benefits like generous paid leave, dedicated wellbeing leave, health insurance, life insurance, income protection, wellbeing programs, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, flexible working, career development, and more. Join us to do the best work of your life at Xero!

Senior Engineer role in Engineering Enablement at Xero, working on platform engineering and developer enablement.

Senior Engineer Engineering Enablement

Xero is seeking a Lead Engineer (Tech Lead) to join their product team. This hands-on role combines technical decision-making with strategic thinking. You'll support the team by providing guidance on delivery, testing, and performance practices. The position offers growth opportunities towards Principal Engineer or Architecture roles.

Key responsibilities include:
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Engineering)
- Using latest engineering and software delivery practices at scale
- Supporting personal growth through training and development resources
- Opportunity to become AWS certified
- Involvement in mentorship programs and various employee resource groups

Tech stack typically includes:
- Microservices written in C# on .NET
- AWS services
- Docker containers orchestrated by Kubernetes
- SPAs written in React with TypeScript
- Automated CI/CD pipeline
- Industry-leading monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging tools

Xero offers excellent benefits:
- Generous paid leave
- Dedicated leave for physical and mental wellbeing
- Employee Assistance Program
- Free medical insurance
- Wellbeing and sports programs
- 26 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers
- Employee Share Plan
- Flexible working arrangements
- Career development opportunities

Xero values diversity, inclusion, and a #challenge mindset. They encourage applications from all backgrounds, even if you don't meet every requirement. The company is NZ Immigration Accredited and Rainbow Tick certified.

Lead Engineer position at Xero, focusing on ecosystem development and technical leadership in a collaborative environment.

Lead Engineer - Ecosystem

Xero, a beautiful platform for small businesses and their advisors, is seeking a Staff ML Engineer to join their AI Products group. This role involves leading the design of AI research and production infrastructure, ensuring scalability and flexibility for research teams. You'll work on cutting-edge AI applications, collaborating with scientists, engineers, and product managers to turn data into insightful products.

Key responsibilities include managing technical debt, solving complex problems, and improving data quality across Xero. You'll also contribute to Xero's market profile through public content and events. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience in ML and AI product delivery at scale, strong coding skills in Python, and expertise in SQL and distributed processing.

Xero offers an attractive compensation package of $150,000 - $195,000 per year, along with numerous benefits. These include generous paid leave, mental health support, insurance coverage, 401k matching, and 26 weeks of paid parental leave. The company values diversity and fosters a human-first culture of respect and inclusion.

Join Xero to work on challenging AI problems, grow your skills, and make a significant impact on small businesses worldwide. If you're passionate about AI and ready for a leadership role in a dynamic, global team, this position at Xero could be your next career-defining opportunity.

Lead AI infrastructure design and ML product development at Xero, a platform empowering small businesses and their advisors.

Staff ML Engineer

Xero is seeking an Associate Engineer for their Engineering X team within the Catalyst Engineering portfolio. This role focuses on platform engineering and developer enablement, powering Xero's engineers and Partner Ecosystem. You'll work in the API Golden Pathways pod, specifically on Xero Gateway for inbound traffic.

Key responsibilities include:
- Expanding knowledge and skills while contributing to engineering excellence
- Working in a cross-functional environment using modern engineering principles
- Contributing to software application development for new and improved customer experiences
- Seeking clarity on technical complexities and demonstrating smart automation
- Contributing to data-driven decisions for enhancing network solutions

Technologies you'll use:
- AWS and Kubernetes
- C# and TypeScript
- Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
- Gloo Gateway

To succeed, you should be:
- Eager to learn about cloud networking and infrastructure
- Have a basic understanding of networking principles and cloud platforms
- Interested in automating infrastructure and improving operational efficiency
- Possess strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively
- Open to feedback and continuous improvement

Xero offers excellent benefits, including generous paid leave, wellbeing programs, medical insurance, 26 weeks paid parental leave, Employee Share Plan, flexible working, and career development opportunities. Join Xero to do the best work of your life while supporting small businesses worldwide.

Xero is hiring an Associate Engineer for their Engineering X team to work on API and gateway solutions, using AWS, Kubernetes, and modern development practices.

Associate Engineer - Engineering X

Xero is seeking a Lead Engineer for their Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, specifically within the Engineering Health team. This role combines software and systems engineering to enable engineers across Xero to build and support products that are observable, stable, performant, and tolerant to failure. The ideal candidate will be a key contributor in influencing Xero to provide the most reliable experience for customers.

As a Lead Engineer, you'll take technical ownership of your area, contribute expertise to align team deliverables with wider SRE and Xero initiatives, and solve cross-organisation engineering challenges. You'll need strong communication skills, business acumen, and stakeholder management capabilities. The role requires a highly skilled Software Engineer with expertise in modern continuous delivery principles and a broad skill set.

Key responsibilities include:
- Taking a multi-year approach to tackle open-ended problems
- Building cross-functional relationships across the engineering organization
- Lifting team and individual performance through coaching and mentoring
- Developing a team culture of ownership and continuous improvement
- Analyzing complex challenges and facilitating collaborative problem-solving
- Translating organizational needs into a technical vision and roadmap
- Providing thought leadership on development best practices, continuous delivery, quality, security, scalability, performance, and monitoring

Xero offers generous benefits including flexible paid leave, health insurance, life insurance, income protection, wellbeing programs, 26 weeks of paid parental leave, an Employee Share Plan, and flexible working arrangements. Join Xero to do the best work of your life while contributing to a platform that makes a difference for millions of small businesses worldwide.

Lead Engineer - SRE role at Xero, focusing on Operational Health & Engineering Insights. Drive reliability and engineering excellence across the organization.

Lead Engineer - SRE (Operational Health & Engineering Insights)

Xero, a beautiful platform for small businesses and their advisors, is seeking a Low Code Engineer specializing in SnapLogic. As part of the People Systems team, you'll be crucial in developing and maintaining integrations across Xero's internal systems and 3rd parties. You'll work with leading SaaS products, focusing on low-code SaaS IDEs like SnapLogic and Workday Studio. Collaborating across departments and geographies, you'll interact with technical leads and key business stakeholders in HR, Finance, Payroll, and IT. Success means happy stakeholders and world-class execution of change. You'll need expertise in low-code platforms, excellent stakeholder skills, and strong analytical abilities. Xero offers a supportive, inclusive environment with great benefits, including generous leave, wellbeing programs, and career development opportunities. Join Xero to do the best work of your life while making a difference for small businesses worldwide.

Xero seeks a Low Code Engineer for SnapLogic to develop integrations across internal systems and 3rd parties, offering a supportive environment and great benefits.

Low Code Engineer (SnapLogic)

Xero is seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer to join their Subscription & Billing team. This team is responsible for collecting over a billion dollars of revenue every year, with a vision to be the billing product for Xero that scales quickly, integrates easily, enables insights, and delights customers with a beautiful self-service experience.

The ideal candidate will have a strong lean towards front-end technologies but should also be comfortable working on .NET applications. Key responsibilities include working with web fundamentals, modern JavaScript/TypeScript, and building complex web applications, preferably in React + Redux.

What you'll bring:
- Knowledge of web fundamentals and best practices: semantic HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience in various aspects of web development: testing, build tooling, performance, responsive design, security, accessibility, localization
- Experience building and maintaining complex web applications, preferably in React + Redux
- Confidence in upgrading tooling and technology underlying products
- Ability to implement resilient software design patterns
- Knowledge of what makes a good API, whether it's a function, a component, or a web service

Xero values engineers who demonstrate:
- Self-awareness and a growth mindset
- Openness to learning from failure
- Honesty, transparency, and encouragement of feedback
- Teamwork, collaboration, and mentorship skills
- Customer and product focus
- Commitment to supporting an inclusive culture and upholding Xero's values

Xero offers excellent benefits, including generous paid leave, dedicated leave for physical and mental wellbeing, an Employee Assistance Program, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programs, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development opportunities, and much more.

Join Xero to do the best work of your life while contributing to a platform that makes a real difference for small businesses worldwide.

Xero is hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer to build beautiful, scalable billing solutions for small businesses.

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Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.