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Lead Engineer - Making Payments

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Lead Engineer - Making Payments in Australia new

  • Sydney

Responsibilities

  • Define and build reliable, scalable, performant, and secure core services for Xero’s Payments Platform.
  • Set the technical direction and architecture for bill payments and future money-movement capabilities.
  • Contribute hands-on to production code, proof-of-concepts, technical deep dives, and design reviews.
  • Solve complex fintech, payments, and distributed-systems problems across global payment rails, orchestration, compliance, and fraud.
  • Drive reliability, security, testability, observability, high availability, and operational excellence.
  • Lead on-call practices and maintain the health of tier-one production systems.
  • Collaborate with product, security, risk, operations, legal, compliance, design, and partner engineering teams.
  • Coach and mentor engineers at different career stages and raise engineering quality.
  • Champion AI tools and AI-led engineering practices across the team.

Requirements

  • Senior technical experience in a role such as Staff Engineer or Tech Lead.
  • Experience delivering highly available, distributed backend systems at scale, ideally in payments, fintech, or another regulated industry.
  • Strong system architecture and API design experience, including synchronous and asynchronous event-based designs.
  • Proficiency in at least one modern backend language; C# is a bonus, while Java, Go, or C++ are also accepted.
  • Cloud-native experience, ideally with AWS.
  • Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Ability to create clear execution plans for complex problems while maintaining focus on security, testability, observability, and on-call health.
  • Experience building cross-functional relationships and coaching engineers.
  • Hands-on use of AI tools and interest in applying AI to strengthen engineering workflows and platforms.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work based in Sydney or Melbourne, combining office and work-from-home flexibility.
  • Wednesday and Thursday Boost days bring teams together in the office.
  • Work with a globally distributed team across Australia and the United States.
  • Opportunity to shape foundational global payments infrastructure and future product lines.

Xero

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