Senior Software Engineer – Cloud-Native Accounting Core (Hybrid)

Xero; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 155,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Vancouver Accounting Core team. You will own end-to-end initiatives, decouple accounting from the monolith, and evolve scalable services for invoices, payments and reconciliation.

You will code in production, assess architecture trade-offs, and collaborate with partner teams to ensure safe, scalable changes while helping raise engineering standards. You’ll stay hands-on in production code, mentor peers, and contribute to AI-driven quality improvements.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering highly available, distributed systems and high-throughput services on cloud-native platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of significant work, from design through to rollout and production validation, including the technical decisions that come with it.
• You think carefully about architecture and trade-offs, from API design to choosing the right data store, and you balance speed, quality and long-term maintainability.
• Proficiency in a modern backend stack, such as Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Ruby or C++, and you are keen to learn C# and .NET, where existing experience is a bonus.
• Passion for staying hands-on, contributing to production code and technical deep dives, and using AI tools with good judgement to move faster and raise the quality bar.
• A commitment to Go Together by mentoring peers, sharing technical knowledge and helping teammates grow through code reviews, pairing and documentation.

Skills

Distributed systems

End-to-end ownership

Architecture trade-offs

Backend stack

C#/.NET learning

Production code

AI fluency

Mentoring

Job description

Xero is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Vancouver Accounting Core team. You will own end-to-end initiatives, decouple accounting from the monolith, and evolve scalable services for invoices, payments and reconciliation.

You will code in production, assess architecture trade-offs, and collaborate with partner teams to ensure safe, scalable changes while helping raise engineering standards. You’ll stay hands-on in production code, mentor peers, and contribute to AI-driven quality improvements.