Team Lead Software Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

23 days annual leave

Birthday day off

Pension plan 4%

Healthcare

ESPP discount

Life & Disability cover

Mental health support

Volunteer day

Job summary

Xe is rebuilding core platform layers for cross‑border payments. We are seeking a Team Lead who will own the squad's architecture, API design, and delivery, while mentoring engineers and guiding the use of AI tools across the SDLC.

You will collaborate with Product Managers and other squads to move money for Xe's customers, ensuring reliability and scalable growth. You are a hands‑on leader with 6–10+ years in production software, strong backend in C#/.NET, and frontend fluency.

Qualifications

• 6 to 10+ years building production software systems end‑to‑end.
• Proven track record leading a software squad and owning architecture.
• Experience coaching engineers, providing feedback, and growing talent.
• Strong backend proficiency in C# / .NET; frontend fluency with modern frameworks.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices; payments or fintech focus is a plus.
• Proficient in AWS and CI/CD pipelines; familiarity with release gating.

Responsibilities

• Lead the squad responsible for a revenue‑critical platform slice, including services and APIs.
• Set technical direction, review design and code, and manage production incident response.
• Own delivery schedules, roadmap alignment, and sprint planning with the PM.
• Mentor engineers, run regular 1:1s, and support career growth.
• Embed AI tooling into the SDLC and establish best practices for agentic coding.

Skills

Team leadership

Backend development

C# / .NET

Frontend fluency

Distributed systems

AWS

CI/CD

AI tooling

Communication

Tools

Vue.js

React

GitHub Actions

SQS

DynamoDB

Lambda

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 contribution
• Discounted 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, 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.