Company Description
Please Note: This is a temporary internal role for 90 days with the possibility of going permanent.
Take a seat on the Xplor rocketship and join us as Principal Software Engineer, to help people succeed across the world.
From dropping your kids off at childcare, getting something at home repaired, going to the gym or a fitness studio, to picking up your dry cleaning — our software, payments, and commerce-enabling solutions help everyday life businesses to overcome obstacles and form great relationships with their customers.
Job Description
- Contribute to the development and execution of a technology roadmap to support our strategy and objectives and be responsible for the execution of that roadmap.
- Lead the engineering team to follow strong development practices to ensure quality and continuous improvements to process.
- Taking a proactive approach to drive innovation and creative solutions through cutting-edge technologies and implementation of best practice tools, processes and initiatives.
- Take accountability for the overall vertical solution architecture function including participating in the technology decision making process.
- Overseeing the architecture, development, and upkeep of core platforms in collaboration with the engineering team at Xplor Technologies and vendor partners.
- Establish a culture of innovation and continuously improving standards for systems development.
- Contribute to the vision and direction for the future of our products and services.
- Demonstrate innovative thinking in defining and prototyping the use of leading-edge technologies and capabilities for every aspect of the company’s product family.
- Review new and existing solution architecture for compliance with best practices around security, scalability, and maintainability in alignment with overall business objectives.
- Develop and maintain current and future-state architectural blueprints and diagrams.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership in defining business strategy and in designing solutions to address current and future business requirements and infrastructure needs.
- Establish strong, productive relationships with company leadership to ensure the application and benefit of technologies are well understood, including advocacy and support of technological solutions of others to move the Company forward.
- Define and deliver architectural roadmaps, accounting for existing technical debt, development bottlenecks, and aspirational architecture initiatives to drive revenue, reduce total cost of ownership and cycle time, while supporting overarching company goals.
- Provide coaching and mentorship to the platform engineering team, establish objectives, and consistently enhance their performance and outcomes.
Qualifications
- 5 years' experience in architecting and delivering software platforms used across multiple products and organizational units.
- At least 3 years of progressive experience in leading software engineering teams.
- Expert-level knowledge with multiple programming languages such C#, SQL Server, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, one or more front-end Javascript. VueJS experience is a plus.
- Expert-level skills in concepts such as CI/CD, DevSecOps, Microservices, Performance Engineering and API management.
- Strong understanding of cloud-based architecture with knowledge across Azure and Azure DevOps.
- Experience with agile development practices.
- Strong business acumen to understand the big picture outcomes of technology within global organizations.
Additional Information
Life at Xplor
As an Xplorer, you’ll be part of a global network of talented colleagues who 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:
- #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
The average annual base salary pay range for this role is between $125,000 - $160,000
Location:
You can work fully remote in this position, provided you have eligible working rights, and you are in a time zone with enough overlap to collaborate with your team.
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 [email protected].
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
To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorized to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time.
We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please don't send your application via email.
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.
EEO and Artificial Intelligence
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 proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We're 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.
We make it a priority to respond to each person who applies.
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