VP Engineering

Xe.com; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Discretionary Bon

23 days annual leave increasing with 8

Birthday day off

Pension contribution

ESPP

Life & Income protection

Healthcare

Wellbeing

Volunteering day

Job summary

Xe.com is seeking a VP of Engineering to lead the consumer and corporate engineering organisation. You will oversee four Engineering Directors and a team of around 100 engineers, driving platform modernisation, AI integration, and high operational reliability across distributed teams.

In this senior role below the CTO, you will shape the technology strategy, governance, and execution, balancing innovation with strict compliance in a regulated payments environment.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leader with experience managing multiple teams or segments.
• Proven track record of transforming large-scale engineering organisations.
• Strong judgment on architecture, platform direction, and production trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering transformation agenda across consumer and corporate platforms.
• Lead four Engineering Directors and ~100 engineers; build leadership capability and succession.
• Create an AI-enabled engineering organisation and integrate AI into the delivery pipeline.
• Improve delivery speed, reliability, and developer experience across distributed teams.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance, Operations to align priorities and outcomes.
• Define guardrails for AI in a regulated financial services environment.

Skills

Senior engineering leadership

Technical credibility

Transformation leadership

AI-native leadership

Executive communication

Cloud/distributed systems

Tools

.NET

Vue

SQL

Oracle

AWS

Job description

Description

Xe is a cross-border payments platform helping consumers and businesses collect, convert, hold, and send money across markets. Each year, over 300 million people use Xe for currency information, and over 350,000 customers use Xe to send money overseas. We are rebuilding the platform behind cross-border payments for corporate and consumer clients, backed by Euronet Worldwide, with the pace and autonomy of a smaller business and the scale of a global network.

Xe is a cross-border payments platform helping consumers and businesses collect, convert, hold, and send money across markets. Each year, over 300 million people use Xe for currency information, and over 350,000 customers use Xe to send money overseas. We are rebuilding the platform behind cross-border payments for corporate and consumer clients, backed by Euronet Worldwide, with the pace and autonomy of a smaller business and the scale of a global network.

About The Role

We are hiring a VP of Engineering to lead Xe’s consumer and corporate engineering organisation. This is the most senior engineering role below the CTO, leading four Engineering Directors across four segments and shaping the next stage of how Xe builds, ships, and runs technology. This is a transformation leadership role for someone who wants to further modernise a real‑scale payments platform, raise engineering capability, and make AI a practical part of how teams design, build, test, ship, and run software. You will lead an engineering organisation of around 100 people, with a mandate to make Xe faster, more reliable, more AI‑enabled, and easier to build on. The role spans platform modernisation, reduced technical debt, improved developer experience, safer releases, and stronger reliability across distributed teams.

OUR PRINCIPLES

• AMBITION - We dream big, try things out and always ask “why not?” and “what if?” We’re ambitious in our thinking and our delivery
• RESPONSIBILITY - We get involved, bring our perspective, and are always open to new ideas. We take personal responsibility
• COMMUNITY - We value a sense of belonging, trusting each other and encouraging authenticity. We contribute to our community

What You’ll Do

• Own the engineering transformation agenda across consumer and corporate platforms, including platform modernisation, technical strategy, architecture direction, API strategy, engineering standards, and long‑term technology health.
• Lead, coach, and develop four Engineering Directors and their teams, building leadership capability, succession depth, team health, and a culture of ownership across approximately 100 engineers and delivery professionals.
• Build an AI‑enabled engineering organisation by making AI a core transformation pillar and changing how work flows from idea to production across discovery, design, coding, testing, documentation, release, and operations.
• Improve delivery speed, quality, developer experience, and operational resilience by strengthening planning, dependency management, release quality, observability, incident response, and engineering metrics.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and business stakeholders to make clear trade‑offs, align priorities, and deliver customer and commercial outcomes.
• Set safe guardrails for innovation in a regulated financial services environment, ensuring AI adoption, software delivery, security, reliability, and compliance improve together.
• Lead through a distributed engineering model, creating clarity, alignment, and consistent delivery standards across regions, domains, and time zones.

Who You Are

• Senior engineering leadership experience across multiple teams, products, or platforms, with a track record of leading through Engineering Directors, or equivalent leaders.
• Strong technical credibility, with the judgement to guide architecture, platform direction, production trade‑offs, engineering standards, and long‑term technology decisions.
• Proven transformation leadership, including faster delivery, stronger reliability, reduced technical debt, improved developer experience, safer releases, and measurable engineering effectiveness.
• AI‑native leadership mindset, with practical use of modern AI engineering tools and a clear point of view on how AI changes software delivery, developer experience, quality, and operating models.
• Ability to act as an AI evangelist for engineering, scaling adoption beyond individual enthusiasts while setting practical guardrails for quality, human verification, security, reliability, and compliance.
• Experience in complex, high‑availability, customer‑facing engineering environments, ideally involving cloud platforms, distributed systems, APIs, integrations, secure delivery, and modern software delivery practices.
• Executive‑level communication and influence, with the ability to simplify complex technical, operational, and regulatory trade‑offs so senior stakeholders can make clear decisions.
• Experience creating clarity and pace in complex engineering organisations, including setting operating rhythms, decision forums, and accountability models that help teams move faster without losing alignment.

Nice‑to‑have

• Experience in cross‑border payments, money movement, banking integrations, or regulated financial services.
• Familiarity with engineering estates using technologies such as .NET, Vue, SQL, Oracle, AWS, and modern engineering tools is helpful, but not essential.
• Experience building engineering operating models, including observability, release quality, incident response, on‑call practices, and delivery governance.

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.

At Xe we are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier‑free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long‑term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on [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.