# Sr. Software Engineer, X Money

**Company:** [xAI](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/xai)
**Location:** London, England, United Kingdom
**Work mode:** On-site
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Category:** Software
**Department:** Other
**Listed:** 2026-04-14

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## Job description

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.  
  
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

#### **SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, X MONEY**

We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our X Money team, focused on building a revolutionary global payment network that will serve over 600 million users and rival the world’s largest financial institutions. In this role, you will specialize in backend development, designing and optimizing robust microservices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. You will support full-stack efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance initiatives, and contribute to the creation of a high-scale financial products platform. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, driving innovation at the intersection of AI and finance.

**RESPONSIBILITIES:**

-   Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments
-   Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products
-   Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms
-   Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics
-   Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems
-   Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling

#### **BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:**

-   5+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer, emphasizing rapid prototyping, user-centric design, and AI solutions

#### **PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:**

-   Experience with high-volume streaming systems
-   Experience with distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments
-   Experience with Rust, Go, Python, or Java

#### **COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:**

£107,000 - £262,000 GBP

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage, cash plan, income protection, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

_SpaceXSI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our_ _[Recruitment Privacy Notice](https://x.ai/legal/recruitment-privacy-notice)._

## Other open roles at xAI

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- [Sr. Mobile Android Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/xai/sr-mobile-android-engineer-5286978007) — New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA
- [Model Engineer, Multimodal Understanding](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/xai/model-engineer-multimodal-understanding-5286976007) — Palo Alto, CA
- [Sr. Software Engineer, Data Engineering (X)](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/xai/sr-software-engineer-data-engineering-x-5286971007) — Palo Alto, CA
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