# Lead Engineer - Making Payments

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 will stay hands-on, raise the bar for engineering quality, and help the team adopt AI-led ways of working. You will also coach and mentor engineers at different stages of their careers, with 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, a team of around 8 to 10 mid-level and senior engineers within the Payments Platform, looking after the bill payments experience across multiple regions as we expand our payment offerings globally. You'll collaborate closely with product, design, security, risk, legal and compliance, as well as Principal Engineers and partner te

- **Id**: 4010914
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/xero-lead-engineer-making-payments-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Melbourne, Australia, Sydney, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T07:13:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T10:07:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4927
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: HR & Payroll Software, Accounting & Tax Software

## Company

- **Id**: 5206
- **Name**: Xero
- **Domain**: xero.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/xero>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 16
- **Ghost share**: 0.063
- **Stale share**: 0.563
- **Repost share**: 0.063
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 33
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **Xero** — Optional: no
- **.NET** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Australia** — Iso: AU; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T10:07:48Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 33
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T12:53:24Z

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