Xero
Engineer - Payments Platform
CAN: Vancouver (333 Seymour St), Remote. Posted 18 days ago
The role
You will build platforms and product capabilities that support money movement through Xero. This includes collecting invoice payments, paying bills, and supporting payroll. You will work on payment orchestration, provider integrations, and internal ledger capabilities.
What you will do
- Evolve systems into reusable payment capabilities
- Build payment orchestration and provider integrations
- Develop foundations for customer onboarding, verification, and risk
- Strengthen reconciliation, dispute handling, and internal ledger capabilities
- Support bill payments and money flows with reliability and security
- Apply AI and automation to reduce manual effort
- Shape technical decisions and architectural approaches
- Take ownership of automated testing, deployment, and observability
Required qualifications
- Strong backend software engineering experience
- Track record of building and operating reliable services in production
- Understanding of distributed systems, service boundaries, consistency, resilience and failure handling
- Practical experience working with transactional data
- Ability to work through ambiguous problems and make pragmatic architectural decisions
- Ability to take ownership of implementation, testing, deployment, and observability
- Clear communication and collaboration across engineering, product and operational teams
- Interest in using AI tools to improve engineering productivity
Nice to have
- Experience in payments, financial systems or other environments where accuracy and auditability are critical
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Equity (RSU) programs
- Health, wellness, and retirement programs
- Wellbeing days
- Generous leave
- Dedicated professional development budgets
Before you apply
- Xero uses AI to help screen applications based on job-related qualifications
About the company
Xero is an organization building platforms for money movement. The Payments Platform Engineering team is an early-stage organization building foundations for collecting and paying money.