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Support Xero’s partner sales channel by guiding accounting and bookkeeping practices through onboarding, data migration, software implementation, and activation. Deliver one-on-one and group training on Xero and related products, manage stakeholder expectations, schedule virtual and on-site sessions, maintain Salesforce records, and create self-service resources. The role requires frequent travel to partner practices and strong accounting, communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
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Lead large-scale software engineering efforts focused on modernizing monolithic systems into distributed, scalable architectures. Make major code design decisions, develop technical solutions, improve CI/CD tooling and TDD practices, and maintain reliable systems using C#, .NET, React, AWS, and Kubernetes. Mentor engineers, contribute to engineering standards, participate in agile delivery and code reviews, and collaborate with product, design, and international engineering teams.
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Manage a portfolio of accounting and bookkeeping partners to drive retention, platform adoption, revenue growth, and subscription expansion. Conduct business reviews, create success plans, identify churn risks, and position Xero capabilities including payroll, bill pay, analytics, and AI tools. Use Salesforce CRM for account health, forecasting, and pipeline management while collaborating with consultants, sales operations, marketing, finance, and customer experience teams.
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Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small businesses, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place. At Xero, we're here to make running a business beautiful. By making small businesses more efficient every day, connecting them with big business technology and empowering a community behind them, their potential is limitless. When that happens, we're not only helping small businesses, we'll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
This role may be a remote role in the US, and someone preferably based in the San Francisco / Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle or Portland areas. Senior Engineer must be able to work PT hours.
What You'll Bring With You:
- 5+ years of delivering software with a deep understanding of system design and architecture.
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as C#, Typescript/Javascript, Java, Kotlin, Python or similar
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong expertise in data modeling and working with SQL/relational databases, PostgreSQL.
- Curiosity and eagerness to develop your craft and dive into the deepest levels of how things work.
- Payments or risk experience a plus, but not required
- Ability to make code design decisions for all teamsʼ products.
- Experience in auditing teams codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and ability to make changes easily.
- Expertise in distributed systems architecture. Ability to lead or facilitate discussions on application design.
- Able to ensure team products meet Xero's various engineering standards. Experience in contributing to discussions around new standards and revisions to existing ones.
How You'll Make an Impact:
- As a founding member of the US Payroll team, you will: Significantly impact the delivery of a product that small business owners love and that simplifies the payroll process.
- Scale services supporting millions of users.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Design, and other Xeros to define software requirements and accelerate feature delivery.
- Design and deploy high-scale, highly efficient orchestration workflows.
- Design, build, and integrate with third-party APIs and services.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement while shaping the future of our technical stack.
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Why Xero?
Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that. Our human-first culture of respect, fairness, and inclusion is what helps Xeros thrive and work and beyond. Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, employee resource groups, wellbeing programming and allowances, medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance, fertility and family forming financial support, 401k contribution matching, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with snacks and break areas, flexible working, career development and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience. If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.
Xero San Mateo, California, USA Office
Our new Bay Area office located in San Mateo features collaborative and transformative spaces perfect for team gatherings. The office is also home to our CEO and other senior leaders!
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