Software Engineering Lead

Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote (Anywhere in New Zealand) Salary: Not specified

Company Description

At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours. We provide small and medium-sized businesses with cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions to manage the complexities of running and growing their businesses, allowing owners to focus on what they love. Xplor Pay enables businesses to get paid quickly and securely, without hidden fees, through our self-built platform that delivers secure, transparent, fast, and accurate payments. Our purpose is to help people succeed, and as part of our team, you'll contribute to the personal connections that strengthen relationships with Xplor products.

Job Description

About the Opportunity

Join our Central Technology Team as a Software Engineering Lead anywhere in New Zealand to make a real impact daily. Every line of code, interface design, and conversation is an opportunity to enrich our customers' experiences. Reporting to the Director of Software Engineering, you will lead a C# team responsible for building and maintaining Xplor’s reconciliation platforms. This platform is a crucial part of our global, full-stack payment processing platform, supporting integrators, partners, and merchants. You will be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, collaborating with Product Management, Site Reliability Engineering, and other teams to deliver and support functionality across our payment platform.

Responsibilities:

Technical:

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

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.
• Work with other development teams globally to build a unified, full-stack payment processing platform.
• Provide people leadership, including goal setting, performance reviews, coaching, and mentoring.
• Manage the on-call rotation for your team, ensuring fairness, effectiveness, and sustainability.
• Manage a flexible work schedule to accommodate meetings that may occur outside normal business hours, while prioritizing a healthy work-life balance.

Location

You can work from home 100% from anywhere in New Zealand, provided you have full working rights.

About Our Central Technology Team

Xplor utilizes a diverse range of products and technologies. We have evolved from multiple startups into a single company with over 700 Xplorers in our Central Technology (CT) team, working collaboratively worldwide. Our technology stack includes both modern and legacy languages. We continuously iterate on our processes and technologies to find common ground across our various projects and products.

Our engineers are expected to be dynamic and adaptable. Xplor is a company where you will have significant input into processes and requirements, as well as the opportunity to overcome challenges and ambiguity. This autonomy allows for substantial ownership of the product and development process.

Qualifications

What would make me a good candidate?

• Required qualifications: Not specified.