Team Lead Software Engineer

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

Description

About Xe

Xe is a cross-border payments platform. We help SMEs and consumers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand collect, convert, hold, and send money across markets. Each year, over 300 million people use Xe for currency information and over 350,000 use us to send money overseas.

Today, we're rebuilding the platform layer behind cross-border payments for corporate and consumer clients. We're small enough that your code ships fast and your decisions matter, and Euronet Worldwide (Nasdaq: EEFT) backs us so the problems stay real-scale.

About This Role

We're hiring a Team Lead who owns how a squad builds and ships, from architecture and API design through to delivery, reliability, and the growth and performance of the engineers on the team. You already use AI as part of how you think, build, test, and ship, and shape how the team does the same.

You’ll write code that moves money in production, own the squad’s architecture and engineering delivery, lead the growth of its engineers, and serve as the squad’s technical co-lead with the Product Manager. Your squad owns a slice of the platform that moves money for Xe’s customers, along with the services and partner integrations behind it. You align with adjacent squads when work crosses boundaries.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What We're Looking For

Must-have

• 6 to 10+ years building production software systems, end-to-end.
• Track record of technical leadership in a software team: setting architecture, leading design reviews, mentoring engineers, and being accountable 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, as a meaningful part of the role alongside hands-on technical leadership.
• 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 (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) 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.

Nice-to-have

• Track record leading engineering teams shipping payments, fintech, or money-movement products at scale.
• Formal line-management or performance-management experience.
• Track record of hiring, interviewing, or onboarding engineers.
• Experience modernizing platforms, decoupling from legacy services, or leading large refactors.
• Experience leading engineering teams through significant change (scaling, modernization, or restructuring).

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Discretionary Bonus
• 23 days annual leave increasing with service (capped at 28 days)
• Paid day off for your Birthday
• 4% employer pension contributionDiscounted Euronet ESPP
• Life Cover, Income Protection & Critical Illness cover
• Healthcare
• Plumm Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Volunteering day for a charity of your choice

We want Xe to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organization that encourages diversity in all respects.

Xe is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of age, national origin, race, colour, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [e-mail].

The position responsibilities outlined above are intended to define the general contents and requirements to perform this job. It is not to be taken as a complete statement of responsibilities or requirements. This job description does not restrict the Company's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job as needed.