Engineer (Accounting Core)

Xero; Wellington; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero is building the Accounting Core team across Wellington and Vancouver, delivering high-quality software for core products like invoices and payroll. You will contribute to transitioning from a monolith to microservices, building and operating services in AWS, and ensuring system scalability and data integrity.

Collaboration, mentoring, and continuous improvement are core to the role. The role emphasizes strong backend skills, distributed systems knowledge, and proficiency with DevOps, CI/CD,

Qualifications

• Proficient backend development experience with one or more programming languages such as C#, .NET, Java, or Go.
• Familiar with modern cloud platforms and DevOps practices.
• Experience with relational databases and ACID properties.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, impactful software aligned with team and business goals.
• Solve complex problems independently to deliver robust, scalable software.
• Collaborate across teams to improve engineering quality and developer efficiency.

Skills

C#

.NET Core

Java

Go

Backend development

Distributed systems

DevOps practices

Automated testing

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

AWS

Job description

• 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
• 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

Showing an interest in utilizing modern artificial intelligence tools will enable you to enhance personal productivity and streamline engineering workflowsYou bring proficient backend development experience with one or more programming languages such as C#, .NET, Java, or GoApply 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 teamHaving a familiar working knowledge of modern DevOps practices, automated testing, and continuous integration pipelines will help you succeedYour background features practical experience working with relational databases where transactional data integrity and ACID principles are criticalA solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including service-to-service communication, eventual consistency, and resilience patterns belongs in your toolkitYou possess strong communication and collaboration skills, with the capacity to manage internal stakeholders like a technical product partner