Backend Engineer
Melio
Backend Engineer
Melio
Digital payment platform for small businesses
We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team.
Qualifications:
Tech Enthusiasts - more important than experience is to have the passion to learn and get out of the comfort zone
+5 years of professional experience as a software engineerin software engineering, architecture, and design
Experience with micro-services architecture and running cloud-based production environments
Team player who prefers collaboration over working solo
Bonus points:
Independent, fast learner, and excited about learning new technologies.
Looking to improve a strong and open culture
A day in the life and how you’ll make an impact:
Each member of our team is an all-around player who influences the product from the overall experience to the development.
You’ll be using top technologies like Typescript, Node.js, AWS and scalable databases to build a unique experience in the world of B2B payments.
You should be passionate about engineering and building a product end-to-end, through the design, coding, testing, and deployment phases.
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 our tech 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.
Melio Payments provides a digital platform that helps small businesses manage their payments to vendors. It lets users pay bills and receive payments through methods like ACH transfers or credit cards. Card payments can be deferred up to 45 days and earn card rewards, while ACH is free. The service also automates bill payments, enforces approval workflows, and assigns team roles to improve expense control and transparency, with strong security for private data. Compared with competitors, Melio emphasizes flexibility (paying vendors that don’t accept card payments), cash-flow management through card deferment, and built-in governance features for teams. The goal is to simplify and speed up small-business payments, improve cash flow, and provide secure, visible control over expenses.
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