Staff / Lead Engineer - Reporting Team

Xero • Vancouver, BC

5d • CA$186,000 - CA$236,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a hands-on Lead Engineer role in Xero’s Reporting team. You’ll set technical direction for one of the most-used parts of our product and help the team make good decisions through complex, ambiguous work. You’ll lead significant technical outcomes from early thinking through to production. That means balancing customer needs and delivery pace with the long-term health of the systems behind Reporting, while staying close to the code. This isn’t a people-management role. You’ll lead through technical judgement, clear communication, hands-on contribution, and by helping other engineers do their best work. Your work will influence how small businesses and their advisors understand performance, complete reporting and compliance tasks, and get to the right answers faster. You’ll join Xero’s Reporting group, which builds experiences customers rely on to understand their numbers, share insights, and support important accounting workflows. You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, designers, principal engineers, and platform teams. A big part of the role is turning ambiguity into a practical path forward, aligning people across teams, and keeping important work moving.

Requirements

• Deep experience in backend, platform, or product engineering at scale, ideally in a SaaS environment
• A track record of setting technical direction across a team, domain, or complex problem space
• Experience leading significant initiatives through ambiguity and delivering durable outcomes in production
• Strong architectural judgement and the ability to simplify complex systems
• Experience with data-heavy or analytics-oriented systems, with a strong focus on performance, correctness, and trust
• A hands-on approach to code, design, technical investigation, and production problem-solving
• The ability to communicate clearly and build alignment across engineering, product, design, and platform teams
• A genuine interest in coaching Senior Engineers and lifting capability beyond your own work
• Curiosity about emerging product experiences, including AI-enabled workflows, and how to support them responsibly

Nice To Haves

• Apply even if your experience isn't a perfect match! At Xero, we hire based on your skills, passion, and the unique perspective you can bring to enhance our culture and team. We are also tech stack agnostic, so please apply if you've worked with adjacent technologies.

Responsibilities

• Setting technical direction across Reporting, balancing customer outcomes, delivery needs, and system health
• Leading complex initiatives from discovery and design through rollout and production learning
• Guiding the modernisation of the reporting platform to improve reliability, scalability, maintainability, and delivery speed
• Strengthening how Reporting works with shared data and platform capabilities across Xero
• Shaping architecture, APIs, and system boundaries for complex reporting problems
• Staying hands-on through code, technical spikes, design reviews, debugging, and incident response
• Identifying risks and dependencies early, and helping teams make clear, pragmatic trade-offs
• Coaching Senior Engineers and raising the quality of technical decisions and engineering practices

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits: World-class health, wellness, and retirement programs.
• Xero Perks: Inside Xero Explore our full suite of benefits, from wellbeing initiatives to professional development.

What This Job Offers

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