1 day ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and build reliable, scalable, performant, and secure core services for Xero’s Payments Platform.
- Set the technical direction and architecture for bill payments and future money-movement capabilities.
- Contribute hands-on to production code, proof-of-concepts, technical deep dives, and design reviews.
- Solve complex fintech, payments, and distributed-systems problems across global payment rails, orchestration, compliance, and fraud.
- Drive reliability, security, testability, observability, high availability, and operational excellence.
- Lead on-call practices and maintain the health of tier-one production systems.
- Collaborate with product, security, risk, operations, legal, compliance, design, and partner engineering teams.
- Coach and mentor engineers at different career stages and raise engineering quality.
- Champion AI tools and AI-led engineering practices across the team.
Requirements
- Senior technical experience in a role such as Staff Engineer or Tech Lead.
- Experience delivering highly available, distributed backend systems at scale, ideally in payments, fintech, or another regulated industry.
- Strong system architecture and API design experience, including synchronous and asynchronous event-based designs.
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language; C# is a bonus, while Java, Go, or C++ are also accepted.
- Cloud-native experience, ideally with AWS.
- Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Ability to create clear execution plans for complex problems while maintaining focus on security, testability, observability, and on-call health.
- Experience building cross-functional relationships and coaching engineers.
- Hands-on use of AI tools and interest in applying AI to strengthen engineering workflows and platforms.
Benefits
- Hybrid work based in Sydney or Melbourne, combining office and work-from-home flexibility.
- Wednesday and Thursday Boost days bring teams together in the office.
- Work with a globally distributed team across Australia and the United States.
- Opportunity to shape foundational global payments infrastructure and future product lines.
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.