Lead Engineer - Making Payments

The role

You will own the technical lifecycle of bill payments within the Payments Platform. You will set technical direction, create sequenced plans, and guide the team to deliver and maintain system health.

What you will do

• Define and build core platform services
• Contribute directly to production code, proofs of concept and technical deep dives
• Set a high bar for reliability, security and scale through design reviews and best practices
• Lead on-call practices, build robust observability and champion high-performance, reliable systems
• Translate complex business needs into resilient engineering solutions
• Act as a role model and coach, fostering a culture of inclusion, collaboration and excellence
• Champion AI tools and practices across the team

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience in a senior technical role such as Staff Engineer or Tech Lead
• Experience delivering highly available, distributed backend systems at scale
• Depth in secure, high-throughput services
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language
• Cloud-native experience
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, fintech or another regulated space
• AWS experience
• C# proficiency

Before you apply

• Xero uses AI to help screen applications based on job-related qualifications
• A real human recruiter reviews all candidates before any hiring action is taken

About the company

Xero is a company with a globally distributed team across Australia and the US.