- 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
- Set a 3-year architecture across Reporting & Insights. Reporting and Xero Analytics run on a mix of modern services and systems that have grown with Xero over many years. 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
- Evolve the platform without breaking trust. 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
- Make reporting and insights AI-native. 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. We want teams across Xero to build on what you create




- 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
- At twelve months you will have:
- Set a multi-year technical strategy for Reporting & Insights
- Delivered recent 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’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 shape the product and AI roadmap with the Reporting & Insights Product leads
- 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 stay hands-on where it counts: reference implementations,



foundational frameworks and the hardest architecture problems
- You shape the roadmap with the GM and Product, decide where we invest in foundational capabilities, and align teams across regions behind one direction
- You own the multi-year technical strategy and target architecture, and you make the calls that cross team and domain boundaries
- You’re the senior technical voice for Reporting & Insights
- You’ve led the evolution of a large, high-traffic, correctness-critical system across organisational boundaries
- You’ve set technical strategy for a domain or portfolio over a 2 to 3 year horizon, and aligned multiple teams behind it
- You connect external shifts, AI above all, to product and architecture strategy, and you know where LLMs and agents belong in a system
- You have depth in high-throughput, low-latency, resilient distributed systems and data-heavy architecture, and you still contribute hands-on where it matters
- You grow leaders. You’ve mentored Lead and Senior Engineers into bigger roles, and your writing turns complex direction into decisions people act on
- A presence in the wider tech community through talks, writing or open source
- .NET and AWS
- LLM or agent-based features in production
- Financial, reporting or analytics domain experience
- Talent Interview with our recruiter
- Interview loop 1: coding and system design (with our partner Karat), plus a values conversation
- Interview loop 2: a technical deep dive with one of our Principal Engineers
- Leadership conversation with the hiring manager and a bar raiser

📌 Principal Engineer (Reporting & Insights) (Vancouver)
🏢 Xero
📍 Vancouver