Senior Full stack Engineer - Reporting

**About Xero And The Team** At Xero, our purpose is to make running a business beautiful by empowering small businesses with world\-class technology. The Reporting Platform is one of the most heavily used products across the entire Xero suite, serving over 150 reports—such as Profit \& Loss and Revenue statements—to millions of users, accountants, and bookkeepers. As part of our growing engineering group, this team operates across Wellington and Vancouver. We are seeking a **Senior Full stack Engineer** to bridge drive technical initiatives in your pod, modernise legacy frameworks, and drive engineering maturity across high\-scale platform systems. **About The Role** In this position, you will balance your time roughly **50% hands\-on** coding and executing projects alongside senior engineers and **50% strategic** focusing on technical discovery, incident management, and long\-term roadmap planning. **Key Responsibilities** * Hands\-on Delivery \& Architecture for Product Features in Reporting: Lead technical design and implementation, balancing speed, quality, and architectural standards across complex systems to deliver features in Reporting * Modernize Legacy Systems: Guide software application development to modernize legacy .NET frameworks, safely shifting traffic and rolling out updates at scale. * Drive AI Integration: Capitalize on unique opportunities to embed AI directly into our reporting products and software development lifecycle (SDLC) and improve the overall Engineer experience in reporting. * Incident Management \& Quality: Lead incident response, participate in the team's on\-call roster, and establish robust testing and continuous deployment strategies. * Team Leadership \& Mentorship: Elevate team capability by coaching engineers, improving multi\-quarter project planning, and fostering an inclusive engineering culture. **What You'll Bring** We care more about your ability to build high\-scale systems and solve complex architectural challenges than rigid formal credentials. * Large\-Scale System Experience: Experience operating in high\-volume, high\-transaction environments (e.g., Fintech, Banking, Major SaaS, or Medtech). * Full\-Stack Proficiency: Experience or strong familiarity with full\-stack development, particularly .NET / C\#, React, and SQL (tech stack experience is preferred/nice\-to\-have, with legacy modernisation expertise prioritised). * Proven Technical Maturity \& Ownership: A bias for action, strong communication skills, and a builder mindset where you take accountability for end\-to\-end deliverables. * Cross\-Functional Collaboration: Ability to facilitate technical discovery, break down operational silos, and align stakeholders across multi\-quarter initiatives. **Why Join Us?** * High\-Impact Work: Work on critical software used daily by millions of global small business customers. * Growth \& AI Opportunity: Help set the standard for modern development practices and spearhead early\-stage AI initiatives in our product ecosystem. * Flexible Working Environment: While Wellington is our preferred hub, we welcome applicants working remotely in New Zealand. * Inclusive Values: We live by our values—We make it Xero, We make it beautiful, We make it happen, We make it human, and We make it together. Apply 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 team.