Backend Engineer
Clerkie
Senior Backend Engineer, Payments Platform
Xero
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $179,500 - $219,400 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoJavaNoSQLSQL
About the role
- Design and build core services: Contribute to the development of reliable, scalable, performant, and secure services that power Xero’s Payments Platform.
- Drive technical design: Lead the design and implementation of complex features and projects, ensuring solutions are robust and extensible.
- Stay hands-on: Write production-quality code, build proof-of-concepts, and participate in design and code reviews.
- Solve challenging problems: Work on distributed systems, global payment integrations, compliance, and risk-related challenges.
- Collaborate across teams: Work closely with Product, Security, Risk, and Operations to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Mentor teammates: Support the growth of junior engineers by sharing knowledge, providing feedback, and modeling best practices.
- Champion operational excellence: Contribute to on-call practices, observability, and monitoring to ensure high system reliability.
- Continuously improve: Stay up-to-date on industry trends, adopt new technologies where appropriate, and improve team processes and practices.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record delivering highly available, distributed backend systems at scale.
- Strong expertise in system design, API development, and building reliable, high-throughput services—balancing trade-offs between new and existing systems.
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend stack (e.g. C# a bonus, Java, Golang, C++) and experience with cloud-native platforms (AWS a bonus).
- Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Ability to drive technical design and lead implementation of complex projects end-to-end.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and helping raise the technical bar within a team.
- Familiarity with payments, fintech, or other highly regulated, compliance-heavy domains (preferred but not required).
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in an agile, collaborative environment.
- Commitment to code quality—experience with code reviews, testing practices, and building maintainable systems.
Benefits
- very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
- dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing
- Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
- employee resource groups
- wellbeing programming and allowances
- medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
- fertility and family forming financial support
- 401k contribution matching
- 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
- Employee Share Plan
- beautiful offices with snacks and break areas
- flexible working
- career development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringsystem designAPI developmentbackend systemsC#JavaGolangC++SQLNoSQL
Soft skills
problem-solvingmentoringcollaborationtechnical designleadershipcommunicationfeedbackagileoperational excellencecontinuous improvement
