Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. By making small businesses more efficient every day, connecting them with big business technology and empowering a community behind them, their potential is limitless.

How You'll Make Impact:

• Join our dynamic and innovative team at Xero as a Senior Software Engineer for the US Product division. We are seeking a highly skilled backend and platform-focused engineer with prior experience in building public API and SDK. In this role, you will be a critical member of the US product’s platform team to lead Xero’s efforts to build our platform API/SDK, enabling our external platform partners to embed accounting experience into their applications. This is a key strategic initiative for Xero to grow sustainably in the United States.

What You'll Do:

• You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to customers, faster.
• You’ll model the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices.
• You’ll undertake software system development in our suite of products, contributing to new or improved platforms for our customers and partners.
• You will lead the technical design and implementation with architecture principles and good engineering practice.
• Maintain in-depth system knowledge across all system boundaries relating to the team’s components.
• You will be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and demonstrate smart ways to simplify.
• You will lead and drive the definition of public API for accounting services to enable customer workflows between Xero and external partners.
• You will promote strong collaboration within a cross-functional team, including design and product management.

What You'll Bring With You:

• 5+ years experience in platform development at scale.
• 5+ years of programming experience with advanced programming languages, such as C++, C#, Go, Java or similar frameworks.
• 2+ years in data processing and real-time streaming data engine.
• Hands-On experience and understanding of machine learning with emphasis on data platform and serving engine is highly desirable.
• Ability to drive system design and product experience with product management.
• Education in computer science or equivalent fields.
• Able to experiment with new languages and tooling.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines.

$215,000 - $230,000 a year

Why Xero?

Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that. Our human-first culture of respect, fairness, and inclusion is what helps Xeros thrive and work and beyond. Offering very generous paid leave, dedicated paid leave for wellbeing, medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance, 401k contribution matching, and many other benefits that reflect our human value.

If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero.