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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