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 bridge drive technical initiatives in your pod, modernise legacy frameworks, and drive engineering maturity across high-scale platform systems.
In this position, you will balance your time roughly 50% hands-on coding and executing projects alongside senior engineers and 50% strategic focusing on technical discovery, incident management, and long-term roadmap planning.
Key Responsibilities:
Hands-on Delivery & Architecture for Product Features in Reporting: Lead technical design and implementation, balancing speed, quality, and architectural standards across complex systems to deliver features in Reporting
Modernize Legacy Systems: Guide software application development to modernize legacy .NET frameworks, safely shifting traffic and rolling out updates at scale.
Drive AI Integration: Capitalize on unique opportunities to embed AI directly into our reporting products and software development lifecycle (SDLC) and improve the overall Engineer experience in reporting.
Incident Management & Quality: Lead incident response, participate in the team's on-call roster, and establish robust testing and continuous deployment strategies.
Team Leadership & Mentorship: Elevate team capability by coaching engineers, improving multi-quarter project planning, 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.
Inclusive Values: We live by our values—We make it Xero, We make it beautiful, We make it happen, We make it human, and We make it together.
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
- Full-stack development experience or strong familiarity
- Experience with .NET and C#
- Experience with React
- Experience with SQL
- Legacy systems modernization expertise
- Technical design and architecture experience
- Technical discovery and multi-quarter project planning
- Incident management and on-call participation
- Testing and continuous deployment experience
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to mentor and coach engineers
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What We Do
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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