Xero

Intermediate Backend Engineer, Payments Platform

Xero

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $147,000 - $184,500 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudGoJavaNoSQLSQL

About the role

  • Build and deliver backend services: Contribute to the development of reliable, scalable, and secure services that power Xero’s Payments Platform.
  • Solve problems independently: Take ownership of medium-complexity projects, from design through implementation.
  • Contribute to design discussions: Participate in design reviews and provide input on medium-complexity features.
  • Stay hands-on: Write production-quality code, build tests, and ensure your work meets high standards for performance and reliability.
  • Collaborate effectively: Work with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality features.
  • Continuously learn and grow: Apply feedback, expand your technical skills, and contribute to a culture of learning and improvement.
  • Champion best practices: Support operational excellence by contributing to observability, testing, and monitoring.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of building backend services.
  • Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (e.g. C#, Java, Golang, C++)
  • Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS a bonus).
  • Experience working with relational databases (SQL); familiarity with NoSQL is a plus.
  • Ability to independently solve and implement medium-complexity problems.
  • Experience contributing to the design of system components and services.
  • Growth mindset: eagerness to learn, continuously improve, and take feedback as an opportunity to get better.
  • Strong collaboration skills and willingness to work across engineering, product, and operations.
  • Commitment to writing maintainable, testable, and secure code.
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
backend developmentC#JavaGolangC++SQLNoSQLproduction-quality codetestingmonitoring
Soft skills
problem-solvingcollaborationgrowth mindsetindependencedesign contributionfeedback applicationcommunicationownershipcontinuous improvementoperational excellence
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