Top Engineering Jobs in Melbourne, VIC

Build and operate production mobile features for the Xero Accounting App across iOS, Android, and React Native. Own complex functionality from technical design through release and ongoing operation, collaborate across mobile and backend teams, shape the native-to-cross-platform architecture transition, improve reliability and delivery efficiency, and mentor engineers. Work includes performance, scalability, observability, incident response, automation, and AI-assisted development.

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.

The Engineering Manager will lead software delivery teams, champion AI workflows, resolve technical challenges, and enhance engineering practices to meet business goals.

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 long-term technical direction and architecture for Product Platform Engineering. Modernize and decouple a legacy accounting monolith into resilient APIs and microservices, drive platform reliability and scalability, establish engineering principles and guardrails for AI-native and autonomous workflows, and align senior stakeholders around architectural strategy.