Team Lead Software Engineer

Xe; Easthampstead; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Life Insurance

Medical & Dental Insurance

Internal emergency loans

Birthday day off

Various discounts

Euronet stock purchase

Commission-free remittance for family

Annual salary reviews

Gym agreement

Job summary

Xe is looking for a Team Lead passionate about advancing a cross-border payments platform. Your role will encompass leading an engineering squad, focusing on architecture and delivery while supporting the growth of engineers.

You'll influence how AI tools are adopted within the team. To succeed, you'll need a blend of strong technical skills in backend development and system design along with proven leadership experience in software engineering, ensuring that Xe continues to grow in providing

Qualifications

• 6 to 10+ years building production software systems, end-to-end.
• Track record of technical leadership in a software team.
• Experience supporting engineers, including regular feedback and mentorship.
• Strong backend proficiency in C# / .NET or equivalent.
• Working frontend fluency with Vue.js, React, or equivalent.
• Strong system design experience including microservices architecture.
• Payments, FX, or regulated-industry experience.
• Production experience with AWS and CI/CD pipelines.
• Daily use of agentic coding tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team responsible for the platform.
• Set technical direction and lead hands-on engineering work.
• Own engineering delivery and collaborate with the PM.
• Mentor and support engineers with regular 1:1s.
• Shape how the team adopts AI tools across the SDLC.

Skills

Technical leadership

C# / .NET

Backend proficiency

Frontend fluency

System design

AWS experience

SQL fundamentals

Agentic coding tools

Communication skills

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

• Free Life Insurance
• Supplemental Medical & Dental Insurance
• Internal emergency loans
• Birthday day off
• Various discounts via Caja Los Andes
• Euronet stock purchase (quarterly option)
• Remittance service with no commission for immediate family
• Annual salary reviews
• Agreement with Smart Fit (Gym)

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, color, 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.