Lead Engineer - Making Payments

Xero·AU: Melbourne: (260 Burwood Rd)·Remote·Posted 10 November 2026

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THE ROLE As a Lead Engineer in Making Payments, part of Xero’s Payments Platform, you will own the technical lifecycle of bill payments: the way small businesses pay their bills and their people through Xero. When payouts land smoothly, a business’s cash flow stays healthy, so your work has a real and visible effect on the customers we serve. You will set the technical direction, turn it into a clear, sequenced plan, then guide the team as they deliver it and look after the health of our systems once they are live. You’ll get deep exposure to payments at scale and room to shape architecture, delivery and team capability. THE TEAM & HOW THEY CONNECT You’ll join Making Payments within Xero’s Payments Platform, helping build and scale the bill-payments experience for small businesses across regions. You’ll work closely with Product and Design, and collaborate with engineering, Security, Risk and Operations partners across Xero across timezones. THE TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE IMPACT - Our stack: .NET (C#), AWS, Postgres and DynamoDB, with an API-first, mostly backend focus and tier 1 services that need high availability and test coverage above 90%. - Hard problems,…

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