Senior Engineer

Join Xero's Reporting team as a Senior Engineer, where you'll have a hands-on role in building and improving one of the most-used parts of our product. You'll own meaningful work from design to delivery, production validation, and ongoing improvement. Your work will directly impact how small businesses and their advisors understand performance and complete important reporting and compliance tasks. You'll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and adjacent platform teams, and have the opportunity to mentor and support other engineers.

• Ownership of meaningful reporting initiatives, services, or workstreams from design through rollout, production validation, and ongoing improvement.
• Building and improving customer-facing reporting experiences, with a focus on clarity, usability, reliability, and performance.
• Contributing to the modernization of parts of the reporting platform and helping improve developer experience and delivery speed.
• This is a role for someone who cares about customer outcomes, writes high-quality software, and enjoys solving real product and platform problems with other strong engineers
• You stay hands-on and care deeply about code quality, testing, and production outcomes
• You enjoy mentoring others and helping lift the people and practices around you
• You have a track record of owning significant features, services, or initiatives end to end
• You have solid systems thinking and engineering judgement, and can make good technical decisions with a high degree of autonomy
• You’re curious about better ways of working, including AI-enabled tools and workflows, and use good judgement in applying them
• You communicate clearly and work well with engineers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders
• You’re comfortable working through ambiguity and can create clarity for yourself and others
• You have experience building for data-heavy or analytics-oriented use cases, with a good instinct for performance, correctness, and usability
• You bring strong experience in backend, platform, or product engineering, ideally in a SaaS environment with meaningful scale or complexity