At Xero, our purpose is to make running a business beautiful by empowering small businesses with world-class technology. The Reporting Platform is one of the most heavily used products across the entire Xero suite, serving over 150 reports—such as Profit & Loss and Revenue statements—to millions of users, accountants, and bookkeepers.
As part of our growing engineering group, this team operates across Wellington and Vancouver. We are seeking a Senior Full stack Engineer to deliver features and product initiatives in your pod, modernise legacy components, and drive engineering maturity across high-scale platform systems.
About the RoleAs a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will help design, build, and operate the customer experiences that sit within Xero’s Reporting domain. You will deliver product features and improvements that drive strong customer outcomes while protecting the performance and reliability of a high-traffic public platform.
You will bring technical depth to the pod, shaping implementation quality and advancing your Engineering craft across the team. You will Go Bold by owning complex product initiatives end to end, experimenting with AI-assisted workflows, mentoring fellow engineers, and helping simplify solutions across both front-end and back-end environments while establishing a clear trajectory towards future technical leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
Hands-on Delivery & Design for Product Features in Reporting: Drive technical design and implementation, balancing speed, quality, and architectural standards across complex systems to deliver features in Reporting
Drive AI Integration: Capitalise on unique opportunities to embed AI directly into our reporting products and software development lifecycle (SDLC) while improving the overall Engineer experience in reporting.
Modernisation of Legacy Systems: Guide software application development to modernise legacy .NET frameworks, safely shifting traffic and rolling out updates at scale.
Incident Management & Quality: Lead incident response, participate in the team's on-call roster, and establish robust testing and continuous deployment strategies.
Mentorship: Elevate team capability by coaching engineers, improving and fostering an inclusive engineering culture.
We care more about your ability to build high-scale systems and solve complex architectural challenges than rigid formal credentials.
Large-Scale System Experience: Experience operating in high-volume, high-transaction environments (e.g., Fintech, Banking, Major SaaS, or Medtech).
Full-Stack Proficiency: Experience or strong familiarity with full-stack development, particularly .NET / C#, React, and SQL (tech stack experience is preferred/nice-to-have, with legacy modernisation expertise prioritised).
Proven Technical Maturity & Ownership: A bias for action, strong communication skills, and a builder mindset where you take accountability for end-to-end deliverables.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to facilitate technical discovery, break down operational silos, and align stakeholders across multi-quarter initiatives.
High-Impact Work: Work on critical software used daily by millions of global small business customers.
Growth & AI Opportunity: Help set the standard for modern development practices and spearhead early-stage AI initiatives in our product ecosystem.
Flexible Working Environment: While Wellington is our preferred hub, we welcome applicants working remotely in New Zealand.
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.
Skills Required
- Experience operating high-volume, high-transaction systems (Fintech, Banking, Major SaaS, or similar)
- Experience modernizing legacy .NET frameworks and safely rolling out updates at scale
- Hands-on full-stack development and ~50% coding contribution
- Incident management experience and participation in on-call rotations
- Leadership, mentorship, and multi-quarter project planning experience
- Cross-functional collaboration and technical discovery facilitation
- Full-stack proficiency with .NET / C#, React, and SQL
- Experience or interest in embedding AI into products and SDLC
Xero Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as extensive, with multiple leave types including annual PTO, dedicated wellbeing days, extra “Xtra” days, year-end shutdown time, and a paid volunteer day. U.S. job postings and benefits pages consistently highlight breadth that emphasizes rest and wellbeing.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental provisions are portrayed as particularly strong, including 26 weeks of fully paid leave for primary caregivers and fully paid partner leave. Family-forming support through Carrot is also highlighted.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is outlined as broad, with Cigna/Kaiser medical options plus dental, vision, FSAs, and Modern Health support for employees and families. U.S. sources also note subsidized plan options and HSA contributions.
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Xero is small business accounting software that provides a platform on which businesses can build a fully integrated solution. It’s designed to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. Xero minimises tedious admin by automating routine tasks, delivers valuable insights when needed, and brings together business data, trusted advisors, and powerful apps in one intuitive platform. By alleviating pain points, Xero empowers small business owners to supercharge their business, simplifying the complex and freeing up time from manual admin so they can focus on what really matters to build the business they’ve always envisaged.
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