Technical Lead C# / Manager (Remote)

Company Description

Take a seat on the Xplor rocket ship and join us as a Technical Lead C# / Manager in the United States 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

POSITION SUMMARY

As a Technical Lead and Manager, you will oversee a team of engineers and help plan, document, and develop solutions that support both internal business requirements as well as external customers.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The following duties are normal for this position.  This list is not to be construed as exclusive or all inclusive.  Other duties may be required and assigned.

• Become the subject matter expert for the platform.
• Design, documents, develops, tests, optimizes, and maintains software systems for use by internal staff and external customers.
• Develop areas of expertise within the team, so that key people have areas of ownership and knowledge, and train staff on the in the platform.
• Prioritize development work in order to enable delivery of features.
• Ensure the platform is running well and software issues causing production problems are communicated and addressed in a timely fashion.
• Communicate, escalate, and document when projects are behind schedule or are blocked.
• Uses technical experience to help team members with technical aspects of their jobs.
• Hold regular one on ones with direct reports.
• Review and provided feedback on product requirements, visual designs and testing plans.
• Communicate and coordinate activities with engineering departments including Product Management, Quality Assurance, DevOps and other engineering teams.
• Provides technical product improvement suggestions to improve quality, performance, maintainability.

Leading people at Xplor

Leaders at Xplor are tasked with bringing our culture and values to life. The Xplor culture is rooted in inclusive, innovation, personal growth and impact. As a leader at Xplor you will;

• Attract, develop, inspire and retain a high performing team
• Exhibit a desire to help their team members succeed and invest time in their development and growth
• Collaborate and openly debate with the team to manage projects, solve problems, discuss challenging issues, or learn more about critical issues as a group
• Delegate tasks thoughtfully to free up capacity to work at a strategic level
• Work with Xplorers in the team to establish clear, challenging performance goals and metrics for the year
• Use the Xplor performance management and goal setting process to monitor projects and deliver results that exceed expectations and regularly review team progress against plans
• Act as an enterprise leader sharing best practice and driving Xplor wide initiatives

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, systems analysis or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience using C#.
• Good working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and Angular
• 5+ years of experience with SQL Server
• 5+ years of experience developing secure, RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure is a plus
• Working knowledge of agile software development life-cycles.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong, clear written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Docker is a plus
• Experience with mobile platform development (iOS and Android) is a plus.
• Prior experience as a manager or as a technical lead 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: 

• Flexible PTO
• Unparalleled opportunities to learn and accelerated career development
• 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer
• GiveBackDays/Comm