Engineering Manager- Payments Platform

The role

You will lead the Payments Platform engineering team in Vancouver. You will own delivery, staffing, and operational health while building engineering practices for early-stage initiatives that power money movement.

What you will do

• Lead the Payments Platform engineering team in Vancouver
• Own delivery, staffing, and operational health of the team
• Handle hiring, performance, and career development for engineers
• Set team priorities with product and engineering leadership
• Own team processes, quality standards, and on-call practices
• Ensure technical architecture decisions are backed by a team that can deliver
• Shape how the team works, including use of AI-assisted development
• Sequence work to move customer value and long-term architecture forward

Required qualifications

• Proven record of leading engineering teams that deliver highly available distributed systems under real production constraints
• Experience growing and managing engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development
• Track record of building inclusive, high-trust team cultures
• Experience building a platform or product from an early idea into production
• Technical depth in system architecture, API design, and data stores
• Experience setting direction and breaking complex problems into clear, actionable plans
• Comfort using AI tools to improve development workflows

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, fintech, or money movement, such as payment orchestration, risk and fraud, or multi-provider integrations
• Experience in adjacent domains with demanding reliability, security, or correctness requirements
• Experience modernizing established systems while continuing to deliver value to customers
• Track record of partnering with product, design, and other cross-functional teams

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity (RSU) programs
• Health, wellness, and retirement programs
• Wellbeing days
• Generous leave
• Dedicated professional development budgets

Before you apply

• Technical assessments including a systems design assessment
• Technical deep dive interview
• Values / Future Proof Xero interview
• LEADership interview

About the company

Xero connects money movement with financial context to help small businesses manage cash flow. Payments is one of Xero's biggest areas of investment and growth.