Principal Engineer

Company Description

Take a seat on the Xplor rocketship and join us as Senior Tech Lead in Melbourne, Australia, 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; 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.
• Managing the architecture, development and maintenance for all core platforms across the region collaborating with Xplor Technologies engineering staff 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.
• Coach and mentor platform engineering teams, set objectives, conduct appraisals and continually improving their performance & results.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in architecting and delivering software platforms used across multiple products and organisational 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 frameworks (ie., Vue JS, Angular, React).
• Master level skills in concepts such as CI/CD, DevSecOps, Containerisation and Performance Engineering and API management.
• Strong understanding on cloud-based architecture with knowledge across Azure and Azure DevOps.
• Experience in waterfall and agile development practices.
• Strong business acumen to understand the big picture outcomes of technology within global organisations.
• Experience with Blazor .NET is a plus

Additional Information

What does it mean to work for 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.

Some of the perks of working with us: 

• Unparalleled opportunities to learn and accelerated career development
• A collaborative, team environment with people who truly love what they do
• 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer
• 8 weeks each year to work from anywhere in the world
• 3 day paid Volunteer Leave days per year
• Extra sick leave provided to give employees 15 days total per year
• Unlimited access to Udemy for Business, 10% of your time devoted to growing you and your career, and further support to help you grow
• Access to mental health support
• Fully flexible work arrangements

More about us 

We’ve recently expanded our reach by merging the two software and payments powerhouses TSG and Clearent. The resulting company is Xplor Technologies serving over 82,000 businesses that proce