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Senior Software Engineer - AI in Australia new

  • Sydney

Responsibilities

  • Lead development of Xero’s internal AI orchestration platform and shared agentic frameworks.
  • Define technical standards, patterns, and scalable solutions for internal AI systems.
  • Build secure agent access patterns for data and tools.
  • Develop governance, cost-tracking, and AI model evaluation tooling.
  • Create shared patterns and starter templates that help engineering teams ship AI-enabled solutions faster.
  • Design, build, deploy, and operate APIs and backend services in containerized environments.
  • Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, designers, security teams, and other engineers.
  • Translate complex technical trade-offs for technical and non-technical stakeholders and champion emerging technologies.

Requirements

  • Considerable experience delivering production-grade software with hands-on frontend experience in a modern framework such as React.
  • Strong experience designing, building, deploying, and running APIs and backend services using languages such as Python or TypeScript.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, modern Git workflows, and automated testing across the software stack.
  • Experience designing secure authentication and authorization patterns using OAuth/OIDC or similar approaches.
  • Practical experience building agentic AI systems, including agent loops, tool calling, and frameworks such as pydantic-ai or LangGraph.
  • Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Sydney or Melbourne location with hybrid flexibility, regular collaboration opportunities, and team boost days.
  • Generous paid leave, statutory holidays, and dedicated paid physical and mental wellbeing leave.
  • Employee Assistance Program, health insurance, dental reimbursement, vision allowances, and a healthcare spending account.
  • Fertility and family-forming support, wellbeing and sports programs, employee resource groups, and 26 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers.
  • Employee Share Plan, flexible working, career development, beautiful offices, and shared meals.

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