Senior Engineer - Embedded Accounting

Xero; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 165,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial software company in Metro Vancouver is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in platform development and product security. The role involves leading the design and implementation of user management systems while collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality software solutions. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in software engineering and a passion for driving innovative solutions. This role offers a competitive salary and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Generous paid leave

Health insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible working

Career development

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in platform development at scale.
• 5+ years of programming experience with advanced programming languages.
• 2+ years of experience in product security, authentication, and federated identity.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to create and deliver software to customers, faster.
• Lead technical design and implementation with architecture principles.
• Drive product security with emphasis on authentication mechanisms.

Skills

Platform development

Programming (C++, C#, Go, Java)

Product security

Data security and privacy

System design

Mentoring and coaching

Education

Education in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

At Xero, we’re here to make running a business beautiful. By making small businesses more efficient every day, connecting them with big business technology and empowering a community behind them, their potential is limitless. When that happens, we’re not only helping small businesses, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

How you’ll make an impact

Responsibilities

• Join our dynamic and innovative team at Xero as a Senior Software Engineer for the US Product division. As a leader in the Small Business Accounting space, we are seeking a highly skilled and talented backend and platform focused engineer with prior experience in authentication, federated identity, authorization space, bringing your passion to build cutting edge systems and help us build the future of Xero products. In this role, you will be a critical member of the US product’s platform team to lead Xero’s efforts to build our user management and authentication design with our external platform partners to embed accounting experience into their applications. This is a key strategic initiative for Xero to grow sustainably in the United States. Our ideal candidate should have a strong technical background in building sustainable and scalable platforms, with the focus on security and authentication space, having a proven track record of driving complex platform development, collaborating and influencing broader teams working around you. If you are passionate about solving critical user problems and creating innovative solutions, this could be the perfect role for you. Be a part of our growing company and make an impact on the future of our products.

What You’ll Do

• You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to customers, faster.
• You’ll model the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices.
• You’ll undertake software system development in our suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved platforms for our customers and partners. Build for scale and high performance.
• You will lead the technical design and implementation with architecture principles and good engineering practice. Work with engineering leadership and delivery teams to deliver the technical capabilities.
• Maintain in-depth system knowledge across all system boundaries relating to the team’s components as well as hands-on development expertise.
• You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale.
• You will be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to simplify.
• You'll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems more effectively.
• You will lead and drive product security with emphasis on authentication mechanism to establish trust communication between Xero and external partners.
• You will lead with quality engineering practices for your team, identifying and resolving challenges to ensure processes and tools are optimised for their context and engineers have the required knowledge and skills.
• Contribute to and champion Xero’s quality strategy and standards. You will promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team, including design, product management. Mentor and coach junior team members.
• You will be a strong contributor to the product planning and delivery.

What You’ll Bring With You

• 5+ years experience in platform development at scale.
• 5+ years of programming experience with advanced programming languages, such as C++, C#, Go, Java or similar frameworks. C# and .Net experience is a plus. 2+ years of experience in product security, authentication, and federated identity.
• Hands on experience and understanding of data security and privacy in enterprise environments.
• Ability to drive system design and product experience with product management. Ability to lead or facilitate discussions on platform design.
• Education in computer science or equivalent fields.
• Able to experiment with new languages and tooling.
• Experience in auditing team’s codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and ability to make changes easily.
• Experience in leading discussions and implementation for scaling products to 2-10 times the number of users.
• Able to ensure team products meet Xero's various engineering standards. Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines.
• Experience building embedded software with API and SDK is a plus.
• Experience building third-party developer APIs and platforms is a plus.

Compensation

$165,000 - $181,000 a year

Why Xero?

Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that. Our human-first culture of respect, fairness, and inclusion is what helps Xeros thrive and work and beyond, and that includes our candidates. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience, but you could be just the right person for this role. If you are excited about working at Xero, but your past experience doesn\'t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance and dental reimbursement with vision allowances, a healthcare spending account, fertility and family forming financial support, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with shared meals, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.