We’re looking for an impact-driven, experienced software engineering manager to lead our Platform Engineering in the Backend areas.

As a Backend Platform Engineering manager, you will be leading a tight-knit and dynamic team of experienced engineers that takes pride in high coding standards and modern development practices

The team takes their talent and experience and transform it into the standard of Melio’s backend engineering area, affecting coding excellence, From Service creation to Production monitoring

As a leader in the Platform Engineering group, you will be responsible for serving other engineers here at Melio, by providing them with wider solution of internal services, packages and tools.

The team continually improving the DevX (Developer experience) of more than 200 engineers and setting high bar of coding standards, helping the product engineering team to focus on their business oriented tasks while using the Platform Engineering solutions

This position requires an experienced team leader that achieved success in their previous roles as a technical leader, that wants to add a deeper challenge, impacting other engineers besides their own team.

Minimum qualifications to apply for this role:

• 7+ years of professional experience as a software engineer with backend development

• 2+ years experience leading a team of engineers.

• Deep understanding of production systems and the architecture of web products

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines

• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred but not a must)

• Proactive team player with a desire to impact other engineering teams

• Independent, resourceful, and creative

Preferred qualifications (If you have those, we see it as an advantage, but it's not a must)

• Experience with NodeJS/ Type script

• Working in Serverless environment

• Working closely with Devops engineers

How your day is going to look, what you will be doing?

• Lead a team of 6 backend engineers while doing hands-on technical work

• Look for ideas of improvement of DevX

• Responsible for internal services in production - with continuous improvements

• Set goals, define tasks, and manage timelines to execute a roadmap. The team has dedicated technical product manager, and together you plan the team’s roadmap

• Work closely with other Engineering Managers, Tech leaders and Architects, to adopt your team solutions

About the Engineering department:

The Engineering department is the backbone of Melio. We build, scale, and maintain the technical infrastructure that processes over $100B in annual payments for small businesses nationwide.

Following our acquisition by Xero, we're tackling an even more exciting challenge: integrating Melio's payment platform with Xero's accounting software to create a unified financial ecosystem. This means building robust, scalable systems that seamlessly connect two powerful platforms while maintaining the security and reliability that financial services demand.

Our Stack:

We're all-in on AWS Serverless—meaning fully managed infrastructure that lets us build and scale faster than ever. We use TypeScript and Python for consistency, combining relational and document databases, and deploy via SAM CLI built on CloudFormation. Serverless gives us the agility to innovate rapidly while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability.

As part of our engineering team, you'll work on problems that matter: real-time payment processing, fraud prevention, API integrations, data synchronization, and user experience optimization. You'll have the autonomy to make architectural decisions, the support of a world-class team, and the satisfaction of seeing your code impact millions of small businesses.

If you're ready to build systems that scale, solve hard problems, and help small businesses thrive, we want to talk to you.

Read more about our Engineering department on ourtech blog.

About Melio:

Melio, a Xero company, is revolutionizing how small businesses handle payments. By combining Melio's best-in-class bill pay platform with Xero's global accounting expertise, we're building the ultimate financial command center for American small businesses. We're the fastest-growing B2B payment solution in the US—but we're still small enough that you can make real, visible impact as we scale to reach millions more businesses.