External Job Posting

Xero • Vancouver, BC

2d • CA$131,800 - CA$197,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

You will deliver high-quality, impactful software that aligns with team and business goals, always keeping customer needs and outcomes front of mind. By identifying and solving complex, ambiguous problems independently, you will produce robust, high-quality, and scalable software that helps change the world by supporting small businesses. Your daily work will focus on systems, scalability, and engineering quality while collaborating across teams to drive technical excellence and developer efficiency. Through clear and thoughtful communication, you will ensure stakeholders are well-informed and aligned. You will play a key part in fostering an inclusive team culture by mentoring others and sharing feedback with empathy. Your active participation in planning, delivery, and continuous improvement will contribute directly to the success of the broader Xero community.

You will join the Accounting Core team within Product Platforms, which forms the critical foundation underneath core product areas like invoices, bills, payments, and payroll. The team exists to make it easy for other groups across Xero to build on a strong foundation of accounting concepts, data, and libraries safely and efficiently. Operating across Wellington and Vancouver, we collaborate closely to reduce tight coupling, establish clear service boundaries, and accelerate product velocity global-wide.

The team is currently working on / Initially, you will focus on:
Transitioning from a monolithic architecture to modern microservices to remove delivery bottlenecks and improve efficiency.
Building and operating services in a production cloud environment utilizing C#, .NET Core, and AWS.
Resolving complex legacy problems, database scalability challenges, and modernizing service interfaces or APIs.
Automating manual processes and applying test-driven and trunk-based development practices.

Requirements

• Proficient backend development experience with one or more programming languages such as C#, .NET, Java, or Go.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including service-to-service communication, eventual consistency, and resilience patterns.
• Practical experience working with relational databases where transactional data integrity and ACID principles are critical.
• Familiar working knowledge of modern DevOps practices, automated testing, and continuous integration pipelines.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the capacity to manage internal stakeholders like a technical product partner.
• Interest in utilizing modern artificial intelligence tools to enhance personal productivity and streamline engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, impactful software that aligns with team and business goals, keeping customer needs and outcomes front of mind.
• Identify and solve complex, ambiguous problems independently.
• Produce robust, high-quality, and scalable software.
• Focus on systems, scalability, and engineering quality.
• Collaborate across teams to drive technical excellence and developer efficiency.
• Ensure stakeholders are well-informed and aligned through clear and thoughtful communication.
• Foster an inclusive team culture by mentoring others and sharing feedback with empathy.
• Participate actively in planning, delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Transition from a monolithic architecture to modern microservices.
• Build and operate services in a production cloud environment utilizing C#, .NET Core, and AWS.
• Resolve complex legacy problems, database scalability challenges, and modernize service interfaces or APIs.
• Automate manual processes.
• Apply test-driven and trunk-based development practices.

Benefits

• World-class health, wellness, and retirement programs.
• Wellbeing days.
• Generous leave.
• Dedicated professional development budgets.

What This Job Offers

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