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This is a role for someone who cares about customer outcomes, writes high-quality software, and enjoys solving real product and platform problems with other strong engineers.\nYour work will have a direct impact on how small businesses and their advisors understand performance, complete important reporting and compliance tasks, and get to the right answers faster.\nThe team / how they connect\nYou’ll join Xero’s Reporting group, which builds experiences customers rely on to understand their numbers, share insights, and support key accounting and compliance workflows.\nReporting has real product depth, technical complexity, and customer impact. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll have meaningful end-to-end ownership and the chance to make visible improvements to a product customers rely on.\nYou’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and adjacent platform teams. Success in this role comes from strong collaboration, good judgement, and the ability to move work forward while keeping quality, maintainability, and customer value in mind.\nInitially, you will focus on\nOwning meaningful reporting initiatives, services, or workstreams from design through rollout, production validation, and ongoing improvement\n\nBuilding and improving customer-facing reporting experiences, with a focus on clarity, usability, reliability, and performance\n\nContributing to the modernisation of parts of the reporting platform and helping improve developer experience and delivery speed\n\nWorking with shared data and platform capabilities across Xero where they support better reporting outcomes\n\nWriting high-quality, maintainable code and contributing strong design and code review feedback\n\nHandling complexity and ambiguity well, breaking problems into practical steps and making sound technical decisions\n\nWorking closely with product, design, and other engineers to deliver useful, well-considered outcomes\n\nSupporting other engineers through mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and everyday technical leadership\n\nHelping raise the quality bar through testing, observability, operational readiness, and continuous improvement\n\nHere are some of the things we are looking for in a Senior Engineer\nYou bring strong experience in backend, platform, or product engineering, ideally in a SaaS environment with meaningful scale or complexity\n\nYou have a track record of owning significant features, services, or initiatives end to end\n\nYou have solid systems thinking and engineering judgement, and can make good technical decisions with a high degree of autonomy\n\nYou have experience building for data-heavy or analytics-oriented use cases, with a good instinct for performance, correctness, and usability\n\nYou’re comfortable working through ambiguity and can create clarity for yourself and others\n\nYou stay hands-on and care deeply about code quality, testing, and production outcomes\n\nYou communicate clearly and work well with engineers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders\n\nYou enjoy mentoring others and helping lift the people and practices around you\n\nYou’re curious about better ways of working, including AI-enabled tools and workflows, and use good judgement in applying them\n\nCompensation & Total Rewards\nAt Xero, we value the impact and skills you bring to the team. 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