Xero

Actively Hiring

Senior Software Engineer - Ai

Melbourne, Australia

Full time

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer - AI, you'll lead the development of Xero's Internal AI orchestration platform - the foundation that enables teams across Xero to build and run AI agents safely and at scale.

About Xero

At Xero, we recognise that diversity of thought drives better outcomes. We Go Together; knowing the direction and bringing the right people. Our human-first culture of respect, fairness and inclusion is what helps us thrive at work and beyond.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the development of Xero's Internal AI orchestration platform
Define the standards and patterns that keep Internal AI solutions aligned with strategic goals and engineering best practices
Translate complex functional requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions
Champion emerging technologies to help advance what's possible with AI at Xero
Build the shared patterns and starter templates that help the wider engineering community ship faster with AI

Requirements & Eligibility

Considerable time delivering production-grade software, with hands-on frontend experience in a modern framework like React
Comfortable designing, building, deploying and running APIs and backend services in containerised environments using languages like Python or TypeScript
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, modern Git workflows and automated testing across the full software stack
Designed secure authentication and authorisation patterns for services, including OAuth/OIDC and similar approaches
Practical experience building with agentic AI systems, including agent loops, tool calling and frameworks like pydantic-ai or LangGraph

Required Skills & Tech

ReactPythonTypeScriptCI/CDGitOAuthOIDCpydantic-aiLangGraph