Staff / Lead Backend Engineer, Xero
Payments Platform
$206.6-258.2k
Plus equity
Office located in South Grant Street, CA
Accounting software for small businesses
Open for applications
Accounting software for small businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$206.6-258.2k
Plus equity
Office located in South Grant Street, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.
Role
Who you are
- You bring a proven track record of delivering highly available, distributed backend systems and designing high-throughput services under real-world constraints
- A deep understanding of system architecture, API design, and both SQL and NoSQL databases is essential
- Your background includes proficiency in modern backend stacks such as C#, Java, Golang, or C++, alongside cloud-native platforms like AWS
- You are passionate about staying hands-on contributing directly to production code, proof-of-concepts, and technical deep dives
- You possess strong leadership capabilities, with a passion for setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and fostering an inclusive culture
- You demonstrate strong ability in breaking down complex problems into clear, actionable solutions while driving agile execution to deliver results
- You are a strong partner to Product, Design, and other cross-functional teams to translate complex business needs into resilient engineering solutions
- You are a champion of advanced usage in AI tools and practices across the team to accelerate development workflows
- Apply even if your experience isn't a perfect match! At Xero, we hire based on your skills, passion, and the unique perspective you can bring to enhance our culture and team
What the job involves
- In this role, you will help shape the technical foundation for money movement capabilities while unlocking new product lines globally
- You will guide the design and development of reliable, scalable, performant, and secure services for the platform, ensuring operational excellence and direct business outcomes
- This is a rare chance to join an early-stage initiative, make foundational architectural decisions, and have a visible impact on the future of small businesses. By contributing directly to production code and proof-of-concepts, you will solve complex financial technology challenges at a massive scale
- The Payments Platform team is the engine powering money movement across the entire ecosystem, collaborating closely with product, security, risk, and operations
- We are a highly collaborative collective that values technical excellence, inclusion, and continuous innovation. Together, we work cross-functionally to translate complex business needs into resilient engineering solutions that support millions of subscribers
- Designing and building out payment platform capabilities, such as orchestration, risks & fraud, multi-providers, to accelerate various payment products development and improve operational posture
- Building out a global bill payment product to streamline how small businesses manage their cash flow
- Developing core high-throughput platform services
- Integrating and championing artificial intelligence capabilities to accelerate engineering productivity and enhance developer workflows
Our take
For a long time, high-quality financial services have been reserved for large-scale businesses. Xero solves this problem by giving small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers access to best-in-class finance and accounting solutions.
Xero is one of the largest companies of its kind, with its promise to save time and effort for small business owners - who often don’t have in-house accounting teams - capturing interest and allowing the company to scale. It has a strong rival in Intuit QuickBooks, which offers similar services, but competes by being most effective for growing startups and having an incredibly simple user experience.
A series of acquisitions and partnerships, including the purchase of Instafile in 2018, have consolidated Xero’s market share. The company continues to add new integrations, such as with Vehocheck Workshop Manager, and the 2023-launched Beautiful Business Fund that will help small businesses accelerate growth.
Steph
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Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington
Leadership
Prior to Xero, she founded Boardlist and Joyus. She also served as the CEO of Polyvore and as a President of Asia Pacific and Latin America Operations at Google.
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