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Head of Engineering - Making Payments

Melbourne, VictoriaFull-time2026-10-31 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid

Core

Lead the Making Payments team to build products and capabilities for small businesses to move money simply, securely, and reliably across Xero globally.

Role type

Head of Engineering (Payments Platform)

Builds

Payment products and platform capabilities for small businesses

Domain

Financial services / Payments

Required skills

Engineering strategy, distributed systems architecture, cloud-native environments, reliability engineering, security, team leadership, product sense, operational excellence, AI adoption

Preferred skills

Payments domain experience, financial services experience, regulated domain experience

Technologies

Cloud-native environments, distributed systems

Responsibilities

Set engineering strategy and roadmap, provide architectural leadership for scalable payment systems, lead predictable delivery, build operational excellence, hire and develop engineering leaders, foster inclusive culture, champion AI-enabled engineering practices

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership scope