Payments Platform Architect & Lead Engineer

Xero; Washington; Hybrid; USD 206,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSU)

Annual bonus

Comprehensive benefits

21 days PTO

Wellbeing leave

Job summary

Xero is hiring a Lead Engineer for the Payments Platform in a hybrid role. You will steer architecture, API design and end-to-end delivery for high-throughput, globally connected payment capabilities. You’ll stay hands-on in production code while guiding teams across regions.

The role emphasizes reliability, security and operational excellence, with AI-enabled development practices and collaboration with cross-functional partners to ship value quickly.

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering highly available distributed backend systems.
• Experience building platforms from idea to production and evolving them.
• Deep understanding of system architecture, API design, databases.
• Proficiency in a modern backend stack and cloud-native platforms like AWS.
• Strong technical leadership and mentoring engineers.
• Hands-on production code and AI tooling usage with judgment.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for the payments platform area.
• Lead architecture, API design and technology decisions.
• Ensure reliability, security and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to turn direction into delivery.
• Shape engineering practices and AI-assisted workflows.

Skills

Distributed backend

High throughput

System architecture

API design

AWS

Technical leadership

Tools

C#

Java

Go

C++

AWS

Job description

Xero is hiring a Lead Engineer for the Payments Platform in a hybrid role. You will steer architecture, API design and end-to-end delivery for high-throughput, globally connected payment capabilities. You’ll stay hands-on in production code while guiding teams across regions.

The role emphasizes reliability, security and operational excellence, with AI-enabled development practices and collaboration with cross-functional partners to ship value quickly.