Senior Engineer - AI Platform

The role

You will lead the development of Xero's Internal AI orchestration platform. You will define standards and patterns to enable teams to build and run AI agents safely and at scale.

What you will do

• Lead the development of Xero's Internal AI orchestration platform
• Define standards and patterns for Internal AI solutions
• Translate complex functional requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions
• Champion emerging technologies
• Build internal AI platform architecture and agentic frameworks
• Develop secure agentic access patterns for data and tools
• Build governance, cost tracking and evaluation tooling
• Build shared patterns and starter templates for the engineering community

Required qualifications

• Experience delivering production-grade software
• Hands-on frontend experience in a modern framework like React
• Experience designing, building, deploying and running APIs and backend services in containerised environments using Python or TypeScript
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, modern Git workflows and automated testing across the full software stack
• Experience designing secure authentication and authorisation patterns for services using OAuth/OIDC or similar approaches
• Practical experience building with agentic AI systems, including agent loops, tool calling and frameworks like pydantic-ai or LangGraph
• Ability to translate technical trade-offs into clear language for technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

• Generous paid leave plus statutory holidays
• Dedicated paid leave for physical and mental wellbeing
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program
• Health insurance
• Dental reimbursement with vision allowances
• Healthcare spending account
• Fertility and family forming support
• Wellbeing and sports programmes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers
• Employee Share Plan
• Flexible working

About the company

Xero has a human-first culture of respect, fairness and inclusion. They recognise that diversity of thought drives better outcomes.