2 hours ago
Base Salary
$287k - $320k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set a two- to three-year technical strategy, target architecture, and investment roadmap for Reporting & Insights.
- Lead the evolution of reporting and data foundations across teams, products, and organizational boundaries.
- Design high-throughput, low-latency, resilient distributed systems that scale to Xero’s largest and most complex customers.
- Build AI-native reporting foundations for safe agent access to financial data, grounded and explainable answers, and correctness validation.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through reference implementations, foundational frameworks, and complex architecture work.
- Align engineering, Product, platform teams, and leadership behind a shared direction and roadmap.
- Mentor Lead and Senior Engineers, raise the technical bar, and help hire the first Reporting & Insights engineers in Vancouver.
Requirements
- Experience setting technical strategy for a domain or portfolio over a two- to three-year horizon and aligning multiple teams behind it.
- Experience leading the evolution of a large, high-traffic, correctness-critical system across organizational boundaries.
- Deep expertise in high-throughput, low-latency, resilient distributed systems and data-heavy architecture, with continued hands-on contribution.
- Ability to connect AI and other external shifts to product and architecture strategy, including determining where LLMs and agents belong in a system.
- Experience growing technical leaders and mentoring Lead and Senior Engineers into larger roles.
- Strong technical writing and ability to turn complex direction into actionable decisions.
- Financial, reporting, or analytics domain experience is preferred.
- Experience delivering LLM or agent-based features in production is preferred.
- Experience with .NET and AWS is preferred.
- Participation in the wider technology community through talks, writing, or open source is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Vancouver, British Columbia, or San Mateo, California, with designated office boost days.
- Applications are welcomed from candidates across Canada willing to relocate to Vancouver and from remote candidates in Seattle, Washington.
- Permanent employees may participate in annual bonus and equity programs, with possible performance-based cash or RSU incentives.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, wellbeing leave, Xtra Leave, a volunteer day, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
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.