11 hours ago
Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver payment platform capabilities end-to-end, from technical design through production rollout and validation.
- Build reusable, provider-agnostic capabilities for payment orchestration, provider integrations, onboarding, risk and fraud, reconciliation, and bill payments.
- Design and develop reliable, secure, high-throughput distributed services for production-scale payments.
- Improve existing systems incrementally while contributing to long-term platform architecture.
- Apply and evaluate AI capabilities for product problems while protecting customer trust.
- Contribute to production code, technical deep dives, engineering practices, and quality standards.
- Mentor peers and support team growth through code reviews, pairing, knowledge sharing, and documentation.
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering highly available, distributed systems and high-throughput services on cloud-native platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of significant technical work from design through rollout and production validation.
- Strong architectural judgment, including API design, data-store selection, trade-off analysis, maintainability, quality, and delivery speed.
- Proficiency in a modern backend language such as Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Ruby, or C++.
- Willingness to learn C# and .NET; existing experience with them is a bonus.
- Hands-on experience contributing to production code and technical deep dives.
- Commitment to mentoring, code reviews, pairing, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
- Ability to use AI tools with good judgment and demonstrate AI fluency.
Benefits
- Hybrid work from the Vancouver office with flexibility to work from home and required “boost days” in the office one to two days per week.
- Base salary range of $155,000 - $205,000 CAD.
- Eligibility for annual bonus and equity (RSU) programs, with possible performance-based cash or equity incentives depending on role level and company performance.
- Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement programs, plus wellbeing days, generous leave, and professional development budgets.
About Xero
Xero builds cloud-based accounting software for small businesses and their advisors, covering invoicing, bank reconciliation, payroll, expenses, and reporting. It sells subscriptions and supports an extensive ecosystem of connected bank feeds and third‑party apps via APIs and an app marketplace. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, Xero is a public company dual‑listed on the NZX and ASX.