External Posting

Xero • Vancouver, BC

2d • CA$155,000 - CA$205,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As an Engineer in our newly formed Vancouver Team, you will deliver the features most critical to Xero's success in Canada. You will play a vital role in responding to the voice of our customers, ensuring we have the right product for Canada to directly drive business success. You will independently solve complex problems across Xero's products, ensuring technical excellence while navigating the complexity between regional needs and global roadmaps to deliver maximum value. You will focus on solving engineering problems at scale, moving beyond feature delivery to influence the architecture and implementation of distributed systems. By refactoring complex, monolithic systems and building high-quality, scalable software, your work ensures our platform remains robust and reliable for millions of global users. As a senior member of the team, you will have the autonomy to make major code design decisions and contribute to global engineering standards. You will balance technical excellence with mentorship, acting as a role model and coaching others through complex technical challenges to help them grow.

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering and operating complex, large-scale systems (distributed/high-availability environments), with strong fundamentals and the ability to ramp quickly across adjacent technologies (we’re tech-stack agnostic).
• You bring a growth mindset and a passion for proactively maintaining and sharing technical knowledge with your peers.
• A background in designing and building high-quality software within a range of languages and tools is essential.
• You possess the ability to lead major code design decisions and contribute to wider technical solutioning.
• Experience with modern engineering practices like automated testing, refactoring, and agile delivery is key to your success.
• You enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow their technical skills through supportive coaching.
• A deep care for technical excellence and a drive to solve large-scale engineering challenges motivates your daily work.
• You bring a curious mindset and are motivated by solving customer problems and delivering business value rather than focusing on a single technical domain.
• Your versatility allows you to ramp up quickly in new areas, mastering unfamiliar codebases and domain knowledge with ease.
• Possessing the grit to push through obstacles and the influencing skills required to collaborate effectively across a global engineering organization.
• A commitment to high-quality engineering practices ensures the code you ship is robust, scalable, and ready for long-term ownership.
• Thriving in an environment of high visibility, you use your communication skills to engage with stakeholders and grow your professional influence.
• Bringing experience in resilient software design and agile development helps you maintain a fast-track delivery pace across diverse projects.

Responsibilities

• Modernizing systems by refactoring monolithic components into distributed, scalable architectures.
• Enhancing the developer experience through the maturation of CI/CD concepts, tooling, and TDD practices.
• Building and maintaining a diverse tech stack that includes C#,.Net, React, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Developing and implementing technical solution designs that align with long-term engineering frameworks.
• Deliver the features most critical to Xero's success in Canada.
• Respond to the voice of our customers, ensuring we have the right product for Canada to directly drive business success.
• Independently solve complex problems across Xero's products, ensuring technical excellence while navigating the complexity between regional needs and global roadmaps to deliver maximum value.
• Influence the architecture and implementation of distributed systems.
• Refactor complex, monolithic systems and build high-quality, scalable software.
• Make major code design decisions and contribute to global engineering standards.
• Balance technical excellence with mentorship, acting as a role model and coaching others through complex technical challenges to help them grow.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits: World-class health, wellness, and retirement programs.
• Xero Perks including Wellbeing days, generous leave, and dedicated professional development budgets.
• Variable Pay: Eligibility commissions or equity based on role and performance.
• Permanent employees are eligible to participate in our annual bonus and equity (RSU) programs. You may also be eligible for performance-based cash or equity (RSUs) incentives depending on your role level, and company performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed