Engineer - Reporting, Insights and Data-in

You will build software that helps small businesses understand their performance, trust their numbers and make informed decisions. Your work will support the evolution of reporting at Xero, giving customers more flexible ways to explore financial data, shape reports and trace results back to the transactions behind them. You will join the Reporting team within Reporting, Insights and Data-In, building customer-facing experiences and shared platform capabilities that support reporting across Xero.

Responsibilities

Build software that helps small businesses understand their performance, trust their numbers and make informed decisions; Take ownership of engineering problems from design through production, balancing performance, accuracy and ease of use; Work with Product, Design and other engineers to turn complex requirements into reliable software while protecting existing reports and workflows; Contribute to shaping the Vancouver team through communication, feedback and knowledge sharing; Build flexible reporting experiences that let customers combine business data, reshape views, save configurations and explore underlying transactions; Improve reporting engine performance so complex queries remain responsive as data volumes and customer needs grow; Keep calculations accurate and results up to date when transactions are corrected or source data changes; Create shared reporting capabilities that other product teams can use; Make reported numbers easier to inspect and trace back to their source; Use AI to improve engineering workflows and verification

Requirements

Strong software engineering experience and a track record of delivering and operating reliable software in production; Practical experience with data-intensive systems, relational databases or complex queries, with an understanding of how design choices affect performance; Cares about data correctness and can build automated checks for calculations and system behaviour; Can work through ambiguous problems, weigh technical trade-offs and deliver useful improvements without overcomplicating the solution; Takes ownership across the delivery lifecycle, from understanding customer needs to testing, deployment and production support; Communicates reasoning clearly, welcomes constructive challenge and collaborates with Product, Design and engineering partners; Interested in applying AI tools to engineering work, with the judgement to verify outputs and remain accountable for quality

Nice to have

Experience with reporting, analytics or financial software

Benefits

Variable pay: annual bonus and equity (RSU) programs for permanent employees; Performance-based cash or equity (RSU) incentives depending on role level and company performance; Comprehensive health, wellness and retirement programs; Xero Perks including Wellbeing days, generous leave and dedicated professional development budgets