A platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

Xero, a leading platform for small business accounting and bookkeeping, is seeking a Lead Engineer to spearhead the integration of their recently acquired Syft Analytics platform. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on development, focusing on integrating analytics tools and building experiences that transform complex data into actionable insights. The position requires collaboration with a South Africa-based team, potentially involving evening hours.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced technical leader who can maintain a strong hands-on presence while mentoring team members and driving technical excellence. You'll be responsible for setting technical direction, conducting code reviews, and ensuring high-quality software delivery at scale. The role offers a unique opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies (AWS, GCP) while contributing to a product that impacts millions of small businesses globally.

Xero offers an inclusive culture with comprehensive benefits including generous paid leave, health insurance, parental leave, and flexible working arrangements. The company values diversity and encourages applications from candidates who might not meet every requirement but show potential for growth. This role presents an excellent opportunity to join a purpose-driven organization that's making a significant impact in the small business sector while working with cutting-edge technology and a collaborative team.

The position is available in multiple Australian locations with a hybrid work arrangement, offering flexibility while maintaining team collaboration. You'll be part of a company that's committed to both technical excellence and maintaining a healthy work-life balance for its employees.

Lead Engineer position at Xero focusing on Syft Analytics integration, combining technical leadership with hands-on development in a hybrid work environment.

Lead Engineer (Syft Integration)

Xero, a leading platform for small business accounting and bookkeeping, is seeking a Digital Marketing Engineer to join their Enterprise Technology group within the Grow domain. This role focuses on customer acquisition and engagement, working with key Sales & Marketing Technologies. The position offers an opportunity to work with modern SaaS platforms like Intercom, Qualtrics, and Salesforce, designing and implementing solutions that enhance customer experience.

The role combines technical expertise with business acumen, requiring someone who can both build solutions and act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders. You'll be responsible for designing and delivering tailored solutions, providing platform support, and developing integrations between various systems. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in SaaS technologies and customer engagement platforms.

Xero offers an exceptional work environment with comprehensive benefits, including generous paid leave, health insurance, and mental health support. The company's commitment to work-life balance and career development makes it an ideal place for professionals looking to make an impact in the financial technology sector. The hybrid work model provides flexibility while maintaining collaborative opportunities with the team.

Working at Xero means contributing to a purpose-driven organization that helps small businesses succeed globally. The role offers exposure to cutting-edge technologies and the chance to work on innovative projects that directly impact customer experience. If you're passionate about technology and customer engagement, this position offers an excellent opportunity to grow your career while making a meaningful difference.

Digital Marketing Engineer position at Xero, focusing on customer engagement platforms and SaaS technologies in a hybrid work environment.

Digital Marketing Engineer

Xero is seeking an Associate Engineer for their Platform team, specifically within the Customer Platforms team in the Platform domain (Sprouts pod). This role focuses on maintaining and improving Xero's core Salesforce Platform through DevOps and Platform solutions. As one of New Zealand's largest Salesforce implementations, you'll work alongside experienced and certified Salesforce practitioners.

The position offers an exciting opportunity to work on platform and DevOps solutions, contributing to both internal and external customer experiences. You'll be involved in software application development, including work with Salesforce and custom solutions, while practicing agile methodologies. The role emphasizes sustainable engineering practices and continuous improvement.

Xero's platform helps small businesses and their accounting advisors thrive, making it an impactful position where your work directly contributes to the success of small businesses worldwide. The company offers an inclusive environment with a strong focus on diversity, alongside comprehensive benefits including generous paid leave, health insurance, and career development opportunities.

The ideal candidate will bring a growth mindset and eagerness to learn, with experience in programming languages like JavaScript or Node.js, and familiarity with DevOps tools. While Salesforce experience is beneficial, it's not mandatory, making this an excellent opportunity for engineers looking to expand their expertise in platform engineering.

Entry-level Platform Engineering role at Xero focusing on DevOps and Salesforce platform solutions, offering hybrid work in multiple Australian locations.

Associate Engineer - Platform

Xero is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join their AI Products group within the Data & Science team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on AI and ML solutions that serve millions of customers daily. As part of a diverse, globally distributed team, you'll collaborate with scientists, engineers, product managers, and analysts to transform data into impactful products.

The position involves leading technical delivery of projects and designing system architectures while working closely with Applied Scientists to take models from research to production. You'll be tackling complex challenges at a global scale, whether working with cutting-edge language models or traditional ML methods, creating AI Products that enhance user experience and efficiency.

Xero's platform helps small businesses and their accounting advisors thrive, with a clear purpose of making life better for small businesses worldwide. The company offers an impressive benefits package including generous paid leave, health insurance, mental health support, parental leave, and flexible working arrangements.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in delivering ML and AI products at scale, expertise in SQL and distributed processing, and a passion for solving complex problems. You'll need to be adaptable, eager to learn new frameworks, and comfortable with uncertainty. The role also emphasizes knowledge sharing and mentoring, making it perfect for someone who values continuous learning and team growth.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer position at Xero, focusing on building AI products and infrastructure at scale with emphasis on research and production implementation.

Machine Learning Engineer

Xero, a platform revolutionizing small business accounting and bookkeeping, is seeking a SOC Security Engineer for their Defence pod within Security Operations. This role is integral to their Detection Engineering Team, focusing on proactive threat defence and security optimization. The position offers a dynamic environment where you'll design and implement advanced detection systems, manage data pipelines, and create automation solutions using Python and GCP. Working in a cross-regional team spanning UK and ANZ timezones, you'll collaborate with incident responders to strengthen organizational defences. The role combines technical expertise with continuous learning, offering comprehensive benefits including generous leave, health coverage, and career growth opportunities. Xero's commitment to making life better for small businesses and their communities makes this an impactful position for someone passionate about security engineering and threat detection.

SOC Security Engineer position at Xero, focusing on threat detection, security automation, and incident response in a hybrid work environment.

SOC Security Engineer

Xero is seeking a Lead Engineer to join their Bills Product team, a core feature handling billions of documents monthly. This hands-on technical leadership role combines strategic thinking with practical engineering expertise. The position offers a clear growth path to Principal Engineer or Architect roles. You'll be responsible for guiding technical decisions, mentoring team members, and ensuring engineering excellence while working on a platform that serves small businesses and their accounting advisors. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, championing modern engineering practices, and contributing to the technical direction of the product group. You'll work in a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and work-life balance, with comprehensive benefits and flexible working arrangements. The ideal candidate will have expertise in distributed systems, leadership experience, and a proven track record of scaling products and mentoring engineers.

Lead Engineer position at Xero, focusing on technical leadership and hands-on development for the Bills Product team, with opportunities for growth and impact.

Lead Engineer

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 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.

Xero Engineering Jobs

A platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.