2 days ago
Vancouver, CanadaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Develop robust, scalable backend software aligned with customer, team, and business goals.
- Transition payment systems from monolithic architecture to modern microservices.
- Build and operate production cloud services using C#, .NET Core, and AWS.
- Resolve legacy-system issues and database scalability challenges while modernizing service interfaces and APIs.
- Automate manual processes and apply test-driven and trunk-based development practices.
- Collaborate across teams, communicate with stakeholders, mentor colleagues, and contribute to planning and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Proficient backend development experience with one or more languages such as C#, .NET, Java, or Go.
- Understanding of distributed-systems concepts including service-to-service communication, eventual consistency, and resilience patterns.
- Practical experience with relational databases where transactional integrity and ACID principles are important.
- Working knowledge of modern DevOps practices, automated testing, and continuous-integration pipelines.
- Interest in using modern artificial-intelligence tools to improve productivity and engineering workflows.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to manage internal stakeholders as a technical product partner.
Benefits
- Expected base salary is CAD 131,800–150,000, with eligibility for annual bonus and equity or other performance-based incentives for applicable permanent employees.
- Benefits include health, wellness, and retirement programs, wellbeing days, generous leave, and professional-development budgets.
- This is a hybrid role based on-site in Vancouver, with one to two office days per week and the remaining days available to work from home.
- Opportunity to travel to New Zealand for onboarding after the first couple of weeks.
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.