Principal Engineer

Description

About Xe

Xe is a cross-border payments platform. We help SMEs and consumers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand collect, convert, hold, and send money across markets. Each year, over 300 million people use Xe for currency information and over 350,000 use us to send money overseas.

Today, we're rebuilding the platform layer behind cross-border payments for corporate and consumer clients. We're small enough that your code ships fast and your decisions matter, and Euronet Worldwide (Nasdaq: EEFT) backs us so the problems stay real-scale.

About This Role

We're hiring a Principal Engineer, a senior individual contributor who anchors complex, high-impact work across the stack and sets the technical direction others build around. You stay hands-on, bring the engineers around you up with you, and lead through technical judgment rather than authority over people. You already use AI as part of how you think, build, test, and ship, and shape how the team does the same.

You'll write code that moves money in production, anchor the engineering on complex, high-impact, and open-ended problems, and set the technical direction other engineers build around as Xe rebuilds its platform layer. You work across squads as a force multiplier: raising the bar through design review and mentorship, going deep where your judgment is needed, and bringing other engineers up as you go, while still shipping on the critical path. This is an individual-contributor role: you lead through technical authority and influence, not by managing people, and you partner with team leads, architects, and engineering managers who own team delivery and the people.

What You'll Do

• Anchor the engineering on complex, high-impact, and open-ended problems across the stack, setting the technical approach other engineers build around.
• Set technical direction and own the consistency and standards the platform depends on across squads.
• Act as a force multiplier: raise the level of the engineers around you through design review, mentorship, sponsorship, and how the team adopts AI, without managing them.
• Stay hands-on, shipping production code on the critical path and the parts that most need senior judgment.
• Partner with product, design, compliance, and engineering leadership to turn ambiguous goals into clear, shippable technical plans.
• Use agentic coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) daily across the SDLC, and lead modernization from legacy services into the modern stack alongside architects and team leads.

What We're Looking For

Must-have

• 8+ years building production software across the full stack, end-to-end.
• Strong frontend proficiency with Vue.js, React, or equivalent.
• Strong backend proficiency in C# / .NET preferred; other OOP languages welcome (Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent).
• Frontend fundamentals: responsive design, accessibility, web performance, and internationalization.
• Solid SQL and relational database fundamentals.
• Deep system design and architecture experience, including service-oriented or microservices and event-driven patterns.
• Track record anchoring large, ambiguous, cross-team technical efforts as an individual contributor: setting the technical direction other engineers build around, with impact measured by the engineers and teams you raise, not by personal output.
• Experience mentoring and growing engineers through design review, technical guidance, and sponsorship, without managing them.
• Daily use of agentic coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) across the SDLC, and a clear point of view on how an engineering team should adopt AI.
• Production experience on AWS, including hands-on deployment, CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices, and native services such as SQS, DynamoDB, S3, ECS, and Lambda.
• Payments, FX, or regulated-industry experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to align engineers and stakeholders around a technical direction.

Nice-to-have

• Experience leading platform modernization or large migrations.
• Experience setting engineering standards or technical strategy adopted across teams.
• Experience with caching solutions like Memcached or Redis.
• Experience using project management and documentation tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Writing automated tests alongside development with AI tools (Claude Code or equivalent).

Perks & Benefits

• Annual performance-related rewards: performance-based annual bonus
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP): open to all employees
• Car allowance: monthly car allowance (subject to Direction Level)
• Meal vouchers: 8€ per working day
• Preferential currency exchange rates: exclusive rates for employees
• Money transfer discounts: special discounts on transfers
• Annual salary review: performance-based process
• Hybrid working model: 2 days per week WFH with flexible scheduling
• Extended vacation allowance: 25-30 days annual leave
• Extra bank holidays: additional company-recognised holidays
• Birthday off: fully paid day off
• Annual employee recognition events: HEROES awards & seniority recognitions
• Annual social events: end-of-year celebration & regional/departmental gatherings
• Seasonal celebrations: Halloween, New Year, Christmas, and other festivities
• Volunteer days & CSR initiatives: Save the Children, environmental actions, food bank donations, and more
• Employee wellness weeks: global and local wellbeing activities
• Leadership training: internal and external learning opportunities
• Cross-functional project opportunities: available based on skills and project needs
• Internal & international mobility: relocation support and coaching for career development

XE offers a competitive salary and benefits package. The reasonable estimated pay for this role ranges from 77,400 EUR to 127,800 EUR. Actual compensation is based upon factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

We want Xe to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organization that encourages diversity in all respects.

Xe is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of age, national origin, race, color, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io.

The position responsibilities outlined above are intended to define the general contents and requirements to perform this job. It is not to be taken as a complete statement of responsibilities or requirements. This job description does not restrict the Company's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job as needed.