3 hours ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead development of Xero’s internal AI orchestration platform and shared agentic frameworks.
- Define standards, patterns, and technical solutions that enable teams to build and run AI agents safely and at scale.
- Build secure agentic access patterns for data and tools.
- Develop governance, cost-tracking, AI model evaluation, and starter-template tooling.
- Design, build, deploy, and run frontend applications, APIs, and backend services.
- Design secure authentication and authorization patterns using OAuth/OIDC and similar approaches.
- Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, designers, security teams, and other engineers.
- Share knowledge, provide constructive feedback, and champion emerging technologies.
Requirements
- Senior-level experience delivering considerable amounts of production-grade software.
- Hands-on frontend experience with a modern framework such as React.
- Experience designing, building, deploying, and running APIs and backend services in containerized environments.
- Experience with Python or TypeScript.
- Strong experience with automated testing across the full software stack and modern Git workflows.
- Experience designing secure authentication and authorization patterns, including OAuth/OIDC approaches.
- Practical experience building agentic AI systems, including agent loops, tool calling, pydantic-ai, or LangGraph.
- Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Curiosity about emerging technologies and ability to work collaboratively across functions.
Benefits
- Sydney or Melbourne location with hybrid work flexibility and regular collaboration or team boost days.
- Generous paid leave plus statutory holidays.
- Dedicated paid leave for physical and mental wellbeing and access to an Employee Assistance Program.
- Health insurance, dental reimbursement with vision allowances, and a healthcare spending account.
- Fertility and family-forming support and wellbeing and sports programs.
- Employee resource groups and 26 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers.
- Employee Share Plan, flexible working, career development, and offices with shared meals.
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About Xero
Xero builds cloud-based accounting software for small businesses and their advisors, covering invoicing, bank reconciliation, payroll, expenses, and reporting. It sells subscriptions and supports an extensive ecosystem of connected bank feeds and third‑party apps via APIs and an app marketplace. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, Xero is a public company dual‑listed on the NZX and ASX.