Top Engineering Jobs in Melbourne, VIC

Lead development of full-stack customer-facing features and refactor monolithic systems using React, Redux, C#, ASP.NET Core, and SQL Server. Drive architecture improvements on AWS, integrate AI-assisted tools and automated agents, participate in on-call incident response, and mentor engineers while promoting CI/CD and TDD practices.

Lead the technical vision, security, CI/CD, data governance, monitoring, release engineering, and AI operations strategy for Xero’s enterprise Salesforce platform. The role combines hands-on Salesforce development with architecture, platform reliability, compliance, automation, and engineering enablement. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, modernizing deployment pipelines, managing platform risk and limits, overseeing D360 integrations, and establishing standards for Agentforce and AI operations.

Build and ship complex React Native mobile features for Xero’s accounting app, owning work from technical design through production operation. Evolve scalable mobile architecture, improve performance, reliability, security, observability, and engineering efficiency, and collaborate across Product, Design, backend, platform, and web teams. Mentor engineers, contribute to technical decisions, participate in incident response and post-mortems, and use automation and AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery.

Lead Xero’s SRE team and reliability program across APAC and EMEA. Own HA/DR testing, incident command, reliability gap remediation, and improvements to detection, response, and prevention. Partner with platform, observability, database reliability, and shared services teams while reducing customer-detected incidents. Build and mentor a distributed engineering team, establish reliability practices, and maintain calm, effective incident response across time zones.

Build internal tooling and platform improvements for database reliability. Split time between software engineering and database operations: monitoring, observability, performance tuning, incident response, migration to RDS/Postgres, and automating fleet management to improve resilience and developer efficiency.

Lead engineering team to modernize C#/.NET and React codebases, design scalable distributed systems on cloud (AWS), integrate agentic AI/LLMs into workflows and products, improve CI/CD, reliability and incident response, mentor engineers, and drive cross-functional technical strategy.

Senior Search Engineer responsible for maintaining and scaling Xero’s global search platform, supporting hundreds of millions of documents with 99.9% uptime. The role includes contributing to a multi-year platform rebuild, developing search capabilities, collaborating on ingestion pipelines, reviewing code, leading projects, and partnering with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams. Experience with production search systems and strong software engineering fundamentals is required; data or AI tooling experience is advantageous.

Lead technical initiatives to enhance engineering excellence, mentor teams, simplify challenges, and advocate for cloud-native architectures and DevOps practices.

The Principal Software Engineer will lead mobile application development, bridge technical and product strategies, and ensure engineering excellence at Xero.

Lead and deliver impactful mobile workflows for the Xero Accounting App while ensuring system health and efficiency through continuous improvement and automation practices.