Lead Software Engineer - Payments - Xero

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer - Payments
Job Location: Remote, CA
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/xero/79a9891a-c58e-4521-9815-0c29a381d669
Job Description: Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

Xero Payments - Help Small Businesses Thrive by Powering the Future of Cash Flow

We know that for small businesses, managing cash flow isn’t just important—it’s everything. That’s why our Payments team is reimagining how money moves through the Xero platform: faster, smarter, and seamlessly embedded in everyday workflows.
Whether it’s getting paid, paying bills, or running payroll, we’re building intuitive, intelligent systems that make cash flow management effortless. Join us and help shape the tools that keep small businesses moving forward!

Our payments products and platforms directly support the core jobs for millions of small businesses globally. They’re growing fast and evolving constantly. We embrace platform thinking as a force multiplier, while continuously improving the product for our small businesses through experimentation. We're passionate about AI in our development tools and products, and we're looking for people who share that enthusiasm. It’s a space of big impact, bold ambition, and incredible opportunity.

About the role

As a Lead Engineer at Xero, you'll be a role model for engineering excellence, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices.

We believe that a solid technical foundation and strong growth mindset are the keys to success in Software Engineering. You won’t find a long list of must-have tech requirements below!
What you'll bring with you:
Previous tenure in a Lead Engineer / Technical Lead role, with experience delivering software solutions at scale.
Proficiency in at least one of C#, NodeJS or React, with practical experience in building applications using any of these frameworks.
You'll be a master of your art, well versed across the full development and implementation lifecycle.
Proven experience in auditing teams codebases, aiming to maintain high standards for security, testability, and to make changes easily; coupled with the ability to make code design decisions for all teams’ products.
Proven leadership in on-call practices and deep understanding of monitoring and observability tooling to proactively manage, troubleshoot, and optimise production systems at scale.
Proven experience designing and building modern engineering stacks, ideally with hands-on experience working in AWS.
Ability to lead and/or facilitate discussions on application design and implementation for your team's products.
You'll come with strong leadership traits, and a proven track record of coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines, with Xero's values at heart.
Proven skills to break down a problem into digestible chunks, including weighing up the pros and cons of a potential solution.
What you'll do:
Stay hands-on: Dedicate at least 50% of your time to technical tasks, including code and design reviews, technical kick-offs, legacy code exploration, proof-of-concept development, and incident response.
Lead by example: Set the technical direction for the team, mentor team members, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
Drive innovation: Encourage experimentation and the adoption of new technologies to improve our products and processes.
Collaborate effectively: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
Solve complex problems: Tackle challenging technical problems and find innovative solutions.

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