Software Engineering Lead

Company Description

At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours.

We give small and medium-sized businesses cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions that enable them to manage all the hassles of running and growing a business, so business owners can get back to doing what they love. With Xplor Pay, we help businesses get paid quickly and securely – without hidden fees. We built the tech ourselves, and our platform delivers secure, transparent, fast, and accurate payments.

We are unified by our purpose of helping people to succeed. So, when you become part of our team, you also become part of the personal connection that strengthens the relationship people have with Xplor products.

About the opportunity

Join our Central Technology Team as Software Engineering Lead anywhere in NZ to make a real impact every day. We say that because we know that every code line we write, every interface we design and every conversation we have, is another opportunity for us to enrich our customers' experiences.

Reporting into Director of Software Engineering, you will help us lead a C# team, building and maintaining Xplor's reconciliation platforms. This platform is a part of a global full stack payment processing platform supporting integrators, partners, and merchants. You will be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, partnering with Product Management, Site Reliability Engineering, and other teams to deliver and support required functionality across our payment platform. Some of the other responsibilities include:

Technical:

• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code based on standards and best practices.
• Refactor existing code, write unit tests, and review other team members' code.
• Contribute to performance, diagnostic, and troubleshooting analysis of software.
• Create and maintain documentation for your team services.
• Estimate, plan and implement new features in collaboration with product and design.

Leadership:

• Oversee a team of 5-6 software developers and 2-3 QA engineers.
• Collaborate with team members across different time zones (New Zealand & India) and adapt to flexible working hours as needed.
• Collaborate with other development teams around the world to build a global, full-stack payment processing platform.
• Provide people leadership to the team, including goal setting and performance reviews, coaching and mentoring.
• Manage the on-call rotation for your team, ensuring that it's fair, effective, and sustainable.
• Manage a flexible work schedule to accommodate meetings that may occur outside normal business hours for the region, while protecting a healthy work-life balance.

Location: In this position, you can work from home 100% from anywhere in New Zealand, provided you have full working rights.

About our Central Technology team

At Xplor, we have many different products and technologies. We have evolved from a bunch of start-ups to a single company with over 700 Xplorers who work in our CT team as one team across the world. You can find everything from super modern to older languages. We continue to iterate on our processes and technologies to find common ground between the different projects and products we have.

With this, we rely heavily on our engineers to be dynamic. Xplor is not the company (yet) where you'll always have well-defined requirements and rigid processes. Our Engineers have a lot of input into the process and requirements. However, there can be challenges and ambiguity you as an Engineer have to overcome – and we know that's not for everyone. The positive side of this is that you get to have a lot of say and ownership in the product and the process.

What would make me a good candidate?

Required qualifications for this role:

• Senior/Lead level of experience using C#, SQL Server and developing secure, RESTful APIs.
• Good working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and Angular.
• Working knowledge of agile software development life-cycles.
• Have a keen eye for improvement in scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Experience with distributed, event-driven system architecture.
• Ability to apply your knowledge and experience to system design, while aligning with the architectural vision and direction set by upper management.
• Professional and articulate communications skills.
• Prior experience leading a small team, where you manage others while also contributing to the work, is strongly preferred.
• You're a true team player who helps your teammates when needed, not just within the scrum team, but across the organization.

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with major payment schemes (credit card, bank transfer, etc.) and/or point-of-sale equipment is a plus.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure.

At Xplor, we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersections of our differences - people of diverse cultures, generations, disciplines, and lived experiences. So even if you think you do not tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.

Values and Life at Xplor

Our four core values - Make life simple, Build for people, Move with purpose and Create lasting communities - are key to who we are and guide us from how we hire to how we recognise our team members.

Our four core values guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:

• Make life simple
• Build for people
• Move with purpose
• Create lasting communities.

If these values sound like you, and describe people you want to work with, you will thrive at Xplor.

As an Xplorer, you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits are:

• 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer.
• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community.
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, plus regular career and growth conversations with your leader, as part of Xplor GPS.
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program.
• Access to free mental health support.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Life and Health Insurance.

Ready to apply?

To start your application, please submit your resume and we will be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "moonshot" at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via talent@xplortechnologies.com.

More about us

We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing 'everyday life' verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

Good to know

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To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers.

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/recruitment-faqs.

Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions. We don't have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.

Xplor is dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we particularly encourage speakers of Te Reo Māori or Pasifika languages to apply.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

We make it a priority to respond to each person who applies.

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