AI is changing how people understand their finances faster than any shift since the cloud, and Reporting & Insights is where Xero meets that change. Over the next few years we’re evolving reporting and insights for the agentic era, where customers ask an AI about their numbers as often as they open a Balance Sheet. As the senior technical leader for Reporting & Insights, you’ll set the multi-year technical direction, from the reports businesses file to the insights that tell them what to do next. You’ll also help hire the first Reporting & Insights engineers in Vancouver and decide how they work. The Technical Challenges You’ll define one target state across both, decide how they build on Xero’s data platform, and secure the investment to get there. You’ll design for high throughput, low latency and resilience, so reporting and insights scale with Xero’s largest and most complex customers. Accountants file tax returns from these numbers, so correctness comes first. You’ll lead the evolution of the data foundations behind about 150 reports, sequenced across teams and organisational boundaries. Customers keep the numbers they trust, on foundations built for what comes next. AI changes what reporting and insights can be: answers to plain-language questions, insights that reach customers where they work, and analysis that once took an accountant hours. Every answer still has to reconcile to the ledger. You’ll define the foundations: how agents query financial data safely, how answers stay grounded and explainable, and how we prove correctness at scale. In your first six months you’ll own the Reporting & Insights architecture and set a direction for the data platform and the evolution of both products that engineering, Product and leadership back.



Set a multi-year technical strategy for Reporting & Insights Delivered new foundations for the first major report families, setting Reporting & Insights up for its next phase of growth Opened Reporting & Insights to bigger businesses, with performance that scales to our largest customers Put shared foundations for AI-native reporting and insights into production Grown the Lead and Senior Engineers around you and raised the technical bar across the group Beyond year one, you’ll shape where Reporting & Insights goes next, and help steer Xero’s wider data and AI direction alongside the leadership team. You’re the senior technical voice for Reporting & Insights. You own the multi-year technical strategy and target architecture, and you make the calls that cross team and domain boundaries. You stay hands-on where it counts: reference implementations, foundational frameworks and the hardest architecture problems. You’ll report to the GM of Engineering. You’ll partner with the engineering managers and teams across Reporting & Insights, who know these products and their data in depth. You’ll also work with Principal Engineers and platform teams across Xero, including the accounting core and data platform teams that own systems we depend on. You’ve set technical strategy for a domain or portfolio over a 2 to 3 year horizon, and aligned multiple teams behind it. You have depth in high-throughput, low-latency,



resilient distributed systems and data-heavy architecture, and you still contribute hand-on where it matters. You connect external shifts, AI above all, to product and architecture strategy, and you know where LLMs and agents belong in a system. You’ve mentored Lead and Senior Engineers into bigger roles, and your writing turns complex direction into decisions people act on. NET and AWS A presence in the wider tech community through talks, writing or open source We invest in AI to learn faster and focus effort on higher-value problems, while engineers stay accountable for what they ship. Engineers own their work, including quality, reliability, and on-call. Leaders set context and priorities, and engineers help shape the solutions.

We offer
a hybrid model that blends the flexibility of working from home with the collaboration of the office, including designated boost days in our contemporary office spaces. We also welcome applications from candidates across Canada interested in relocating to Vancouver, and from remote candidates in Seattle, Washington. TX phone screen (45 minutes): a conversation with your Talent Specialist about your background, motivations and the role. Technical assessments: a coding assessment and a systems design assessment, run through an independent third-party provider and based on real-world scenarios. Technical deep dive (45-60 minutes): with a Principal Engineer and the hiring team. You'll walk through a past project you led, covering how you thought about it, executed it and led through its complexity. Values / 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. We believe in a Tota

📌 Principal Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Xero
📍 Canada