Senior Software Engineer - Accounting Core

Senior Software Engineer on Xero's Accounting Core team, decoupling a mature accounting platform, ensuring accounting correctness at scale, and building shared foundations for product teams. The role involves end-to-end ownership, hands-on production code, and collaboration with partner teams. Technical challenges include modernizing a monolith, designing reliable services for financial data, and making incremental architectural improvements while delivering value.

Proven track record of delivering highly available distributed systems on cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). End-to-end ownership of significant work from design to production. Strong architectural thinking and trade-off analysis. Proficiency in modern backend stack (Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Ruby, C++) and willingness to learn C# and .NET. Passion for hands-on coding and using AI tools. Commitment to mentoring and knowledge sharing.