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Xero

Staff / Lead Backend Engineer, Payments Platform

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27 days ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$207k - $258k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build payment platform capabilities including orchestration, risk and fraud, and multi-provider support.
  • Build a global bill payment product to help small businesses manage cash flow.
  • Develop reliable, scalable, secure, and high-throughput platform services.
  • Make foundational architectural decisions and deliver proof-of-concepts and production code.
  • Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and foster an inclusive engineering culture.
  • Integrate and champion AI capabilities to improve engineering productivity and developer workflows.
  • Collaborate with product, security, risk, operations, and design teams to translate business needs into resilient engineering solutions.
  • Maintain operational excellence and deliver direct business outcomes for a platform serving millions of subscribers.

Requirements

  • Proven track record delivering highly available distributed backend systems and designing high-throughput services under real-world constraints.
  • Deep understanding of system architecture, API design, and SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Proficiency with modern backend stacks such as C#, Java, Golang, or C++, and cloud-native platforms such as AWS.
  • Strong technical leadership, mentoring, technical direction, and inclusive culture-building capabilities.
  • Ability to break down complex problems into actionable solutions and drive execution.
  • Strong cross-functional partnership skills with Product, Design, security, risk, operations, and other teams.
  • Hands-on interest in contributing to production code, proof-of-concepts, and technical deep dives.
  • Interest in applying advanced AI tools and practices to improve development workflows.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model combining work from home with office collaboration on designated boost days.
  • Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, wellbeing leave, Xtra Leave, volunteer leave, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
  • Permanent employees may participate in annual bonus and equity programs, with possible performance-based cash or equity incentives.

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