Full-Stack Engineer - Cross-Border Payments Platform

Xe.com; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid day off for Birthday

Extra annual leave (up to 5 days)

KiwiSaver employer contributions

Healthcare

Discounted Euronet ESPP

Volunteering day

In-office fruit, snacks, drinks

Mental health resources via Plumm

Job summary

Xe.com is hiring a mid-level full-stack engineer to own features end-to-end, from API design and frontend work to backend services and production reliability. You will write code that moves money in production and modernize the platform across the stack, with daily use of AI coding tools.

You'll join a small team with product, design, and compliance, owning services in production and making design decisions in your domain.

Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years building production web applications, end-to-end.
• Strong frontend proficiency with Vue.js, React, or equivalent.
• Strong backend proficiency in C# / .NET preferred; other OOP languages welcome (Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent).
• Solid SQL and relational database fundamentals.
• Writing and maintaining tests as part of how you ship.
• Daily use of agentic coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) across the SDLC.
• Production experience on AWS, including hands-on deployment and native services such as SQS, DynamoDB, S3, ECS, and Lambda.
• Solid CS fundamentals and pragmatic system design.
• Strong communication and collaboration across engineering, product, and design.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features across the stack that move money and manage multi-currency balances across onboarding, KYC/KYB, payment initiation, FX, settlement, and other services.
• Ship customer-facing features from interface to backend services.
• Own services in production including reliability, observability, on-call, and incident response.
• Partner with product, design, and compliance from problem framing through launch.
• Use agentic coding tools daily across prototyping, refactoring, testing, and documentation.
• Help modernize the platform by migrating legacy services to the modern stack with architects.

Skills

Frontend frameworks

Backend development

SQL databases

Testing & QA

Agentic AI tools

AWS & cloud services

System design

Communication

Tools

AWS

SQS

DynamoDB

S3

ECS

Lambda

Job description

Xe.com is hiring a mid-level full-stack engineer to own features end-to-end, from API design and frontend work to backend services and production reliability. You will write code that moves money in production and modernize the platform across the stack, with daily use of AI coding tools.

You'll join a small team with product, design, and compliance, owning services in production and making design decisions in your domain.