Lead development of Xero’s internal AI orchestration platform and agentic frameworks.
Design and implement secure agentic access patterns for data and tools.
Build governance, cost-tracking, and AI model evaluation tooling.
Create shared patterns and starter templates that help engineers ship AI solutions faster.
Design, build, deploy, and operate frontend applications, APIs, and backend services in containerized environments.
Translate functional requirements and technical trade-offs into scalable solutions for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, designers, security teams, and engineering teams.
Requirements
Considerable experience delivering production-grade software with hands-on frontend experience in a modern framework such as React.
Experience designing, building, deploying, and running APIs and backend services using Python or TypeScript in containerized environments.
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, modern Git workflows, and automated testing across the software stack.
Experience designing secure authentication and authorization patterns, including 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 and remain current with emerging technologies.
Benefits
Sydney or Melbourne-based role 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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