Senior Software Engineer - (Elixir)

At Xplor, we help businesses thrive by making life simple for daily activities with a recurring nature. We do that by offering smart software, payments, and commerce-enabling solutions across five "everyday life" verticals: Education, Health and Fitness, Boutique Wellness, Field Services and Personal Services

In the technology team, we have more than 450 colleagues working in offices and remotely around the world, building the first global platform to integrate software, payments and Commerce Accelerating Technologies to help business succeed.

You’ll join Xplor Education (Australia) and our remote Engineering team comprised of engineers from both India and Australia — the team that provides the support and expertise educators need to manage their centres smoothly, improve parent engagement, and deliver the best educational experience, so that they can focus on what really matters - helping children succeed. 

Our Elixir engineers create and maintain numerous products and services throughout the Xplor Education ecosystem including Office, Playground and Home Web.

Reporting into the Elixir Senior Tech Lead, you’ll help us develop our product that allows Australian education services to automate administration, streamline their financials and reporting, digitise attendance and bookings, record learning observations, and communicate with parents in real-time. Some of the other responsibilities you’ll have:

• Work with the tech leads to deliver features for the product and engineering roadmap and ensure projects are delivered on time, and to best practice & quality guidelines
• Be a part of a team with a shared goal - disrupting a market through technology and improving the lives of administrators and families across Australia
• Independently write maintainable code that translates into product features
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle right from concept to delivery as well as post-launch support
• Be involved in design, testing, code review, and documentation
• Regular exposure to business stakeholders and executive management, as well as the authority and scope to apply expertise to many interesting technical problems
• Mentor juniors and mid-level engineers to grow their career
• Share your knowledge to your fellow seniors while learning from them as well

What would make me a good candidate?

• 5+ years experience in software development
• Experience in Elixir programming language, if not ideally Ruby on Rails 
• Experience working on large and complex software projects 
• Knowledge of version control systems, ideally Git
• Full stack development and relational database experience (Postgres)
• Excellent communication skills and independent problem-solving intuitions 
• Knowledge and understanding of TDD/BDD
• Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle
• Ideally, you have experience with front-end frameworks like React . Experience with Node is also expected
• You’re a true team player who knows that we all have to sometimes roll up our sleeves
• You align with our four core values and you’re simply a good human

Bonus skills (but not required):

• Knowledge of AWS services like ECS, Lambda, S3
• Knowledge of GraphQL
• Knowledge of IaC like Terraform or AWS CDK

Ready to apply?

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More about us 

We are 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 payment processing platform. With operations in North America, Australasia, Asia, Europe, and the UK, we serve over 106,000 customers that processed over $38 billion in payments across 20 markets in 2024.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised 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. 

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