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You’ll help evolve a mature platform by decoupling key accounting capabilities from the mature architecture and creating safer, more scalable paths for change across areas such as invoices, payments, bank transactions and reconciliation.\nAs a Senior Engineer, you’ll own significant end-to-end initiatives from technical design through to production, helping decide how accounting capabilities can be separated from the monolith and evolved safely. You’ll stay hands-on in production code, work through trade-offs where accounting-data integrity and scalability matter, and collaborate closely with partner teams to ensure changes to the accounting engine support other Xero teams built on Accounting Core. You’ll also help raise engineering practices and quality standards as the Vancouver Accounting Core team continues to grow.\nTechnical Challenges:\nDecoupling a mature accounting platform: Help separate accounting capabilities from a monolith, creating clearer domain ownership and safer paths for change without compromising the integrity of the accounting record.\n\nAccounting correctness at scale: Design and evolve reliable services for critical financial data across areas such as invoices, payments, bank transactions and reconciliation.\n\nShared foundations for product teams: Build capabilities and outputs that other Xero teams can rely on confidently, so they can deliver customer experiences without rebuilding core accounting foundations.\n\nModernisation alongside delivery: Make incremental architectural improvements while continuing to deliver value for small businesses and their advisors.\n\nHere are some of the things we are looking for\nProven track record of delivering highly available, distributed systems and high-throughput services on cloud-native platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.\n\nDemonstrated end-to-end ownership of significant work, from design through to rollout and production validation, including the technical decisions that come with it.\n\nYou 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.\n\nProficiency 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.\n\nPassion 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.\n\nA commitment to Go Together by mentoring peers, sharing technical knowledge and helping teammates grow through code reviews, pairing and documentation.\n\nWhere and how you can work\nThis role is based in our Vancouver office, where we embrace a hybrid working model. You will have the flexibility to work from home while joining the team in the office for \"boost days\" (1-2 days a week) to collaborate, socialize, and solve complex problems in person.\nOur Hiring Process\nTX phone screen (45 minutes): a conversation with your Talent Specialist about your background, motivations and the role.\n\nTechnical assessments: a coding assessment and a systems design assessment, conducted virtually with real engineers, and based on real-world scenarios.\n\nTechnical deep dive (45 minutes): walk through a past project you owned end-to-end, covering how you thought about it, executed it and led through its complexity.\n\nValues / Future Proof Xero (45 minutes): how you show up day to day, aligned with Xero's values and capabilities such as adaptability, ownership, customer thinking and AI fluency.\n\nCompensation & Total Rewards\nAt Xero, we value the impact and skills you bring to the team. We believe in a Total Package philosophy - ensuring your value is recognized through a holistic lens that includes base salary, performance incentives, and world-class benefits.\nThe expected base salary range for this role is $155,000 - $205,000 CAD.\nIndividual pay is determined by various factors, including geography, level of experience, and the specific skills you bring to the role.\nIn addition to base pay, Xero’s roles are eligible for the following forms of variable compensation:\nVariable Pay: Permanent employees are eligible to participate in our annual bonus and equity (RSU) programs. You may also be eligible for performance-based cash or equity (RSUs) incentives depending on your role level, and company performance.\n\nComprehensive Benefits: World-class health, wellness, and retirement programs. 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