Engineering Manager- Payments Platform

For a small business, getting paid isn't an abstract technical problem. As Engineering Manager, you'll lead the Payments Platform engineering team in Vancouver as it takes on early-stage initiatives that power money movement across Xero and enable new product lines globally, including global bill payments. You'll keep the team delivering while building the engineering practices and capability it needs to grow.

Responsibilities

Lead the Payments Platform engineering team in Vancouver; Own the delivery, staffing, and operational health of the Vancouver Payments engineering team, including hiring, performance, and career development for every engineer on it; Set the team's priorities with the product and engineering leadership; Own the team's processes, quality standards, and on-call practices within agreed standards; Make sure architecture decisions are backed by a team that can deliver them; Help shape how the team works, including its use of AI-assisted development; Build the team's capability through mentoring and technical reviews; Establish engineering standards and clear ownership across the Vancouver Payments team

Requirements

A proven record of leading engineering teams that deliver highly available distributed systems under real production constraints, with strong operational practices; Experience growing and managing engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development, and a track record of building inclusive, high-trust team cultures; Experience building a platform or product from an early idea into production, and evolving it as adoption and complexity grow; Enough technical depth in system architecture, API design, and data stores to guide design reviews and trade-off decisions with your technical leads; Experience setting direction and breaking complex problems into clear, actionable plans that lead to delivery; Comfort using AI tools to improve development workflows, with judgment about when and how to validate their output

Nice to have

Experience in payments, fintech, or money movement, such as payment orchestration, risk and fraud, or multi-provider integrations; Experience in adjacent domains with demanding reliability, security, or correctness requirements; Experience modernizing established systems while continuing to deliver value to customers; A track record of partnering with product, design, and other cross-functional teams to turn complex business needs into resilient engineering solutions

Benefits

Variable pay: annual bonus and equity (RSU) programs for permanent employees; Performance-based cash or equity (RSUs) incentives depending on role level and company performance; World-class health, wellness, and retirement programs; Xero Perks, including Wellbeing days, generous leave, and dedicated professional development budgets