Xero is making a critical, multi-year investment in its new Payments Platform organization to redefine how millions of small businesses move money, requiring scalable systems to power payments across Xero's ecosystem.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record delivering highly available, distributed backend systems at scale.
- Strong expertise in system design, API development, and building reliable, high-throughput services—balancing trade-offs between new and existing systems.
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend stack (e.g. C a bonus, Java, Golang, C++) and experience with cloud-native platforms (AWS a bonus).
- Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Ability to drive technical design and lead implementation of complex projects end-to-end.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and helping raise the technical bar within a team.
- Commitment to code quality—experience with code reviews, testing practices, and building maintainable systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and build core services: Contribute to the development of reliable, scalable, performant, and secure services that power Xero’s Payments Platform.
- Drive technical design: Lead the design and implementation of complex features and projects, ensuring solutions are robust and extensible.
- Stay hands-on: Write production-quality code, build proof-of-concepts, and participate in design and code reviews.
- Solve challenging problems: Work on distributed systems, global payment integrations, compliance, and risk-related challenges.
- Collaborate across teams: Work closely with Product, Security, Risk, and Operations to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Mentor teammates: Support the growth of junior engineers by sharing knowledge, providing feedback, and modeling best practices.
- Champion operational excellence: Contribute to on-call practices, observability, and monitoring to ensure high system reliability.
Other
- Familiarity with payments, fintech, or other highly regulated, compliance-heavy domains (preferred but not required).
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in an agile, collaborative environment.
- Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that.
- Our human-first culture of respect, fairness, and inclusion is what helps Xeros thrive and work and beyond.
- If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.
