Payments Platform Engineering Manager

Lead payments platform engineering for Xero in Vancouver, guiding distributed systems and money movement initiatives through a hybrid work model.

As Engineering Manager, you will lead the Vancouver Payments Platform team. You will coordinate delivery across orchestration, risk and fraud, multi-provider support, and global bill payments. The role combines team capability building with technical depth in architecture, API design, and data stores.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own delivery, staffing, and operational health for the Vancouver team
• Set priorities with product and engineering leadership
• Build engineering capability through mentoring and technical reviews
• Establish quality, ownership, review, and on-call practices
• Support reliable payments platform delivery for new product lines

Requirements:

• Lead teams delivering highly available distributed systems
• Manage hiring, performance, and engineering career development
• Build platforms from early ideas into production
• Guide architecture, API, data store, and trade-off decisions
• Use AI tools with judgment when validating outputs

Shape Xero Payments engineering in Vancouver through delivery leadership, distributed systems expertise, and trusted operational practices.