# Jobs at Xero Open engineering roles at Xero. - [Senior Mobile Engineer - React Native](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/senior-mobile-engineer-react-native) - Senior Mobile Engineer at Xero responsible for architecting and shipping production React Native experiences for the Xero Accounting App, serving millions of small businesses globally. This hands-on senior role combines individual technical contribution with mentorship responsibilities, focusing on evolving mobile architecture, optimizing performance at scale, and embedding AI into engineering workflows. Requires proven expertise in production React Native development, end-to-end feature ownership, and the ability to influence across mobile-backend boundaries while raising engineering standards through technical leadership. - [Associate Security Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/associate-security-engineer) - As an Associate Security Engineer at Xero's Security Defence team, you'll design, build and continuously improve detection and response capabilities for threat investigation. You'll work cross-functionally with Security Operations, Engineering, and Product teams to transform threat intelligence into practical security controls, while developing your engineering expertise through hands-on delivery, incident participation, and mentorship from experienced security professionals in a blameless learning culture. - [Lead Engineer - AI Workflows](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/lead-engineer-ai-workflows) - Lead Engineer - AI Workflows at Xero is a forward-deployed engineering role focused on designing, building, and operationalizing agentic AI workflows across the organization. You will partner with internal business teams to transform how Xero operates by creating intelligent automation solutions using LLMs like Claude and Gemini, integrated with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, Workday, Slack, and NetSuite. This role requires deep expertise in AI systems, production API development, and cloud infrastructure, combined with strong technical leadership and stakeholder engagement capabilities. - [ENGINEERING MANAGER - SRE](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/engineering-manager-sre) - Engineering Manager for Xero's Site Reliability Engineering team, leading a growing APAC/EMEA SRE program focused on high-availability infrastructure, disaster recovery testing, and incident management at scale. You will manage a team of 2-4 engineers while driving a 70-80% reduction in customer-detected incidents through building mature HA/DR testing cadences, optimizing incident command protocols, and fostering a reliability-first engineering culture across geographically distributed regions. - [Senior Security Engineer - Defence](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/senior-security-engineer-defence) - Senior Security Engineer focused on threat detection and response at Xero, a leading cloud accounting platform. You'll design and operate security controls, detection capabilities, and automation to protect customers across SIEM, SOAR, EDR and cloud platforms. This role requires hands-on expertise in security engineering, cloud infrastructure (AWS), threat intelligence frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK), and scripting skills to influence security outcomes at scale. - [Senior Security Engineer - Cloud Platform](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/senior-security-engineer-cloud-platform) - Senior Security Engineer at Xero's Cloud Platform Access team designs and operates identity and access controls across AWS, GCP, and Azure environments. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with deep platform security expertise to build automation-first guardrails that enable teams to ship securely without excessive privilege or long-lived credentials. You'll mentor engineers, architect secure-by-default controls, and drive infrastructure as code standards while fostering psychological safety and engineering excellence across cloud-native identity and access management systems. - [Senior Search Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/senior-search-engineer) - Xero is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to maintain and evolve one of the Southern Hemisphere's largest search clusters, managing hundreds of millions of searchable documents at 99.9% uptime while contributing to a strategic platform rebuild. This role offers genuine technical ownership across search infrastructure, platform architecture, and large-scale system design, requiring strong production search experience and high-quality engineering fundamentals. - [Engineering Manager - Data](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/engineering-manager-data) - As an Engineering Manager - Data at Xero, you will lead a distributed team of nine senior engineers across Australia, New Zealand, and Canada responsible for designing, building, and maintaining core models on Xero's data platform. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical expertise, requiring you to balance platform architecture decisions with delivery execution while coaching senior talent and establishing operational excellence standards. You'll partner with product, platform, and security teams to deliver scalable, high-quality data products that solve meaningful customer problems in Xero's cloud-based accounting ecosystem. - [Prinicipal Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/prinicipal-engineer) - As a Principal Engineer at Xero, you will drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across multiple product teams, shaping cloud-native architecture and DevOps culture while mentoring engineers and influencing executive-level technical decisions. This leadership role combines hands-on technical contribution with strategic architectural vision, requiring extensive experience leading large-scale technical initiatives on cloud platforms and demonstrating exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both engineering teams and senior executives. - [Principal Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/principal-engineer-f5566a9d) - Principal Engineer at Xero is a leadership role focused on guiding cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions for small businesses. You will shape technical strategy across product groups, mentor senior engineers, and drive architectural excellence while balancing technical debt with product delivery. This role requires demonstrated expertise in large-scale systems, cloud platforms, CI/CD automation, and the ability to communicate technical vision to both engineering leaders and executive stakeholders. - [Lead Engineer - Front End Platform](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/lead-engineer-front-end-platform) - Lead a technical platform that powers front-end development across Xero's engineering organization. This role combines hands-on expertise with strategic influence, requiring you to guide modern front-end architecture (React, TypeScript), champion best practices, mentor senior engineers, and shape multi-year technical roadmaps. Ideal for an engineer who thrives balancing platform engineering with cross-team leadership and can drive adoption of CI/CD improvements, design systems, and developer experience initiatives. - [Software Engineer - Database](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/software-engineer-database) - Join Xero's Database Reliability Team as a Software Engineer, splitting your time between backend software engineering and database reliability engineering. You'll build internal tooling and infrastructure to manage Xero's evolving database platform while ensuring reliability, performance, and observability for millions of customers globally. This role requires expertise in backend development, database systems like SQL Server and PostgreSQL, and cloud platforms, with a strong collaborative mindset and passion for platform engineering. - [Lead Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/lead-engineer-976e7e1d) - As a Lead Engineer at Xero, you'll drive AI transformation and technical excellence across a global accounting software platform. You'll lead a high-performing engineering team through agentic AI integration into development workflows and customer-facing products, balancing hands-on technical execution with strategic leadership while modernizing legacy systems in C# and .NET environments. This role offers the opportunity to influence technical strategy, mentor engineers, and build scalable distributed systems at a scale impacting millions of small businesses worldwide. - [Senior Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/senior-engineer-6759da20) - Join Xero's Reporting team as a Senior Engineer, owning meaningful end-to-end initiatives in a hands-on role building customer-facing reporting experiences for small businesses. You'll design and deliver high-quality software solutions in a data-heavy analytics environment, working across a collaborative technical team to improve how businesses understand their financial performance and complete critical compliance workflows. - [Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/engineer-81a89a5c) - Join Xero as a Full Stack Engineer to build robust, scalable cloud-based accounting software serving millions of small businesses globally. You'll work on infrastructure reliability, API development, and modern engineering practices while collaborating with a high-performing team that values code quality, security, and continuous learning. This role offers hands-on technical challenges across the development lifecycle, from architecture and implementation to production support and on-call responsibilities. - [Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/engineer-e1d0b45b) - Join Xero's Data-In organization as a Backend Engineer to build and operate foundational infrastructure powering document-driven experiences across the platform. This role requires 3+ years of experience building scalable production systems using C#, .NET, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS, with strong expertise in distributed systems, DevOps, and CI/CD practices. You'll own critical components of Xero's Documents API and Management services, ensuring secure, high-performance document processing for millions of customers. - [Senior Engineer - AI Workflows](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/senior-engineer-ai-workflows-67b8fc53) - Senior Engineer specializing in AI workflows at Xero's Internal AI Accelerator Squad, focused on designing and operationalizing agentic AI systems that automate complex enterprise workflows. You will embed within business teams to co-design intelligent automation solutions using large language models and enterprise integrations, establishing patterns and guardrails for AI-native operations across the global organization. This role requires production-grade experience with AI systems, cloud infrastructure, and the ability to translate business pain points into scalable technical solutions. - [Software Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/software-engineer) - Xero seeks a Software Engineer to join the Practice Tools division, a core team serving accountants and bookkeepers through robust, scalable platform development. This role emphasizes modernizing legacy systems using C# and React, with direct impact on the onboarding lifecycle and infrastructure resilience. You will collaborate with product and engineering leadership to deliver quality-first solutions that automate manual processes and accelerate value delivery across the platform. - [Lead Engineer- UK Tax](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/lead-engineer-uk-tax) - Lead Engineer for UK Tax at Xero, a global cloud-based accounting software platform. This senior leadership role focuses on designing and delivering secure, scalable distributed systems while mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across the product group. You'll architect complex solutions, optimize engineering practices, and lead initiatives that shape multi-year product and platform goals in a remote-first, collaborative environment. - [Lead Engineer- Syft](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/lead-engineer-syft) - Lead Engineer at Xero's Syft team, responsible for designing and delivering scalable reporting and insights software while mentoring engineers and driving architectural excellence. This hands-on technical leadership role combines hands-on development with strategic oversight of complex distributed systems serving thousands of customers globally. You'll shape product direction, improve operational visibility, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous learning within a collaborative cross-functional engineering environment. - [Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/engineer-fb5d78f5) - Xero's Accounting Core team is seeking a backend engineer to deliver high-quality software that scales accounting infrastructure across microservices. You'll architect and optimize distributed systems using C#/.NET Core and AWS, modernizing legacy monolithic systems while ensuring data integrity and operational excellence. This hybrid role in Vancouver requires strong backend development expertise, distributed systems knowledge, and a collaborative mindset to support Xero's mission of enabling small business success. - [Senior Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/senior-engineer-e928a045) - Senior Engineer at Xero is a strategic technical leadership role focused on architecting and refactoring distributed systems at scale while mentoring engineers across a modern tech stack. This position offers the opportunity to influence engineering standards, design high-availability solutions for millions of global users, and drive modernization initiatives including monolithic system decomposition and CI/CD maturation within a collaborative, agile environment. - [Lead Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/lead-engineer-d35094e1) - Lead Engineer at Xero is a senior full-time role based in Vancouver with a hybrid work model (1-2 days on-site). You'll architect and scale distributed systems, mentor engineering teams, and modernize monolithic platforms while working with C#, .NET, React, AWS, and Kubernetes. This position requires proven expertise in large-scale system design, modern engineering practices, and a passion for technical excellence to serve millions of global users. - [Engineering Manager](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/engineering-manager-e862e689) - As an Engineering Manager at Xero, you will lead high-performing, inclusive teams while serving as a technical anchor overseeing system health, code quality, and predictable roadmap delivery. This Vancouver-based role balances driving product delivery velocity with operational excellence, requiring expertise in software architecture, agile delivery, technical modernization, and AI-native workflows. You'll champion engineering craft through coaching, mentoring, and decentralized decision-making while collaborating cross-functionally with Product and Design partners to resolve dependencies and eliminate complexity from the development experience. - [Senior Engineer - AI Workflows](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/senior-engineer-ai-workflows-207b3ed7) - A pioneering Senior Engineer role within Xero's Internal AI Accelerator Squad, focused on transforming business workflows through intelligent AI automation. The ideal candidate will design, implement, and evangelize cutting-edge AI agents that streamline enterprise processes while maintaining robust security and performance standards. - [Senior Engineer - AI Workflows](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/senior-engineer-ai-workflows) - Senior Engineer specializing in AI workflows at Xero's Internal AI Accelerator Squad, leading the design and operationalization of agentic AI solutions across enterprise platforms. This role combines hands-on AI agent development with technical leadership, requiring proficiency in LLMs, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise integration to drive Xero's transformation into an AI-native organization. - [Lead Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/lead-engineer-e4737bfa) - Xero is seeking a Lead Engineer in British Columbia to drive architectural improvements and scalable system design. The ideal candidate will transform complex monolithic systems, mentor engineering teams, and contribute to global engineering standards while working in a collaborative, agile environment focused on continuous learning and technical excellence. - [Engineering Manager](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/engineering-manager-a547298d) - Xero is seeking an Engineering Manager in Melbourne to lead high-performing software engineering teams, focusing on driving product delivery, technical excellence, and AI-native workflows. The ideal candidate will champion engineering efficiency, mentor top talent, and balance technical innovation with business outcomes in a collaborative, hybrid work environment. - [Engineering Manager](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/xero/engineering-manager-2cf92322) - Xero is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team focused on modernizing architectures, embedding AI-native workflows, and driving technical excellence in a cloud-based accounting software platform. The ideal candidate will balance product delivery with team growth, technical innovation, and system health across distributed, high-scale systems.