Principal Engineer - Reporting & Insights

The role

You will set the multi-year technical direction and architecture for Reporting & Insights. You will design high-throughput, low-latency, and resilient systems while evolving data foundations for AI-native reporting. You will also help hire and grow engineers in Vancouver.

What you will do

• Set a 3-year architecture across Reporting & Insights
• Define a target state for reporting and Xero Analytics
• Design for high throughput, low latency and resilience
• Lead the evolution of data foundations for about 150 reports
• Define foundations for AI-native reporting and insights
• Own the multi-year technical strategy and target architecture
• Shape the roadmap with the GM and Product
• Stay hands-on with reference implementations and foundational frameworks
• Grow Lead and Senior Engineers
• Align teams across regions behind one direction

Required qualifications

• Set technical strategy for a domain or portfolio over a 2 to 3 year horizon and aligned multiple teams
• Led the evolution of a large, high-traffic, correctness-critical system across organisational boundaries
• Depth in high-throughput, low-latency, resilient distributed systems and data-heavy architecture
• Contribute hands-on to architecture
• Connect external shifts, AI above all, to product and architecture strategy
• Know where LLMs and agents belong in a system
• Mentored Lead and Senior Engineers into bigger roles
• Writing that turns complex direction into decisions

Nice to have

• Financial, reporting or analytics domain experience
• LLM or agent-based features in production
• .NET and AWS
• A presence in the wider tech community through talks, writing or open source

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k) match
• 21 days PTO
• 10 days of Wellbeing leave
• 5 days of Xtra Leave
• 1 volunteer day
• 12 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Annual bonus
• Equity (RSU) programs

Before you apply

• TX phone screen
• Technical assessments including coding and systems design
• Technical deep dive interview
• Values / Future Proof Xero interview
• LEADership interview

About the company

Xero provides reports and insights to millions of small businesses and their advisors. The company is evolving its reporting for the agentic era.