Principal Engineer - Payments Products & Platform

The role

You will shape technical strategy across multiple teams and partner with senior stakeholders to build scalable, resilient systems. You will set the example for a portfolio of 40 to 50 engineers and drive engineering standards and architecture.

What you will do

• Shape technical strategy across multiple teams
• Partner with senior stakeholders to turn complex requirements into scalable, resilient systems
• Set the example for a portfolio of 40 to 50 engineers
• Drive engineering standards, architecture, and best practices
• Set long-term direction
• Mentor Staff and Senior engineers
• Shape cross-team initiatives
• Make calls on whether to extend, migrate or build legacy systems
• Model how to use AI technologies to automate tasks and improve engineering outcomes
• Design and analyse A/B tests

Required qualifications

• Deep experience designing and running large-scale distributed systems in production
• Fluency in at least one modern backend language
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL stores
• Experience with cloud-native platforms
• Strong interest in utilising AI tooling
• Ability to design and analyse A/B tests

Nice to have

• Payments or fintech experience
• AWS experience
• Curiosity for growth hacking

About the company

Xero reimagined accounting software and is now reimagining how small businesses get paid and how money moves.