Team Lead, Payments Platform & AI-Driven Delivery

Xe.com; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Discretionary Bonus

23 days annual leave

Birthday day off

4% employer pension contribution

Life Cover

Healthcare

Mental Health & Wellbeing

Volunteer day

Job summary

Xe is building a cross-border payments platform and seeks a Team Lead to own how a squad builds, ships, and scales its slice of the platform. You’ll shape architecture, API design, and delivery, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Product Management.

You’ll use AI tools daily to accelerate engineering work, lead technical decisions, and align with adjacent squads as the platform moves money for Xe’s customers.

Qualifications

• 6 to 10+ years building production software systems, end-to-end.
• Track record of technical leadership in a software team: architecture, design reviews, mentoring engineers, and accountability for a squad's technical decisions.
• Experience leading, developing, and supporting engineers beyond the technical, including coaching, regular 1:1s, feedback, and helping people grow and perform.
• Strong backend proficiency in C# / .NET preferred; other OOP languages welcome (Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent).
• Working frontend fluency with Vue.js, React, or equivalent.
• Strong system design experience, including distributed systems and service-oriented or microservices architecture.
• Payments, FX, or regulated-industry experience.
• SQL and relational database fundamentals.
• Production experience with AWS, including native services such as SQS, DynamoDB, S3, ECS, and Lambda, and ownership of CI/CD pipelines including release gating (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Daily use of agentic coding tools across the SDLC, with a clear point of view on how a team should adopt AI.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to translate technical decisions for product and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team building and running your squad's slice of the platform, across the services, APIs, and partner integrations that move money for Xe's customers.
• Set technical direction and lead the squad's hands-on engineering work: architecture, API design, code for the hard parts, design reviews, code review standards, and leading the squad's response to production incidents.
• Own engineering delivery for the squad, iterating with the PM on roadmap, sprint plans, timelines, and what ships when.
• Lead and support the engineers as people, not just technically: pairing, mentoring, regular 1:1s, feedback, and helping them grow and perform, including contributing to interview loops.
• Shape how the team adopts AI tools: set the example for using agentic coding tools daily across the SDLC and raise the bar for how the squad ships with them.

Skills

C# / .NET

Leadership

System design

Distributed systems

AWS

Frontend (Vue/React)

AI tools in SDLC

SQL

Communication

Payments / fintech

Tools

SQS

DynamoDB

S3

ECS

Lambda

GitHub Actions

Job description

Xe is building a cross-border payments platform and seeks a Team Lead to own how a squad builds, ships, and scales its slice of the platform. You’ll shape architecture, API design, and delivery, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Product Management.

You’ll use AI tools daily to accelerate engineering work, lead technical decisions, and align with adjacent squads as the platform moves money for Xe’s customers.