Technical Lead

At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours.

We give small and medium-sized businesses cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions that enable them to manage all the hassles of running and growing a business, so business owners can get back to doing what they love. With Xplor Pay, we help businesses get paid quickly and securely – without hidden fees.

We built the tech ourselves, and our platform delivers secure, transparent, fast, and accurate payments. We are unified by our purpose of helping people to succeed. So, when you become part of our team, you also become part of the personal connection that strengthens the relationship people have with Xplor products.

About the opportunity

Join our Global Technology Team as a Technical Lead, working remotely from anywhere in New Zealand. In this role, you will lead the evolution of our next-generation billing and settlement platform within a global, full-stack payment processing ecosystem.

Every architectural decision you make, every service you design, and every improvement you deliver will directly enhance the reliability, scalability, and security of a platform that supports merchants and partners worldwide. You will report to the Director of Software Engineering and play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our payments domain while mentoring engineers and strengthening engineering standards.

This is an opportunity to expand your architectural influence, elevate team capability, and contribute to a platform designed for scale, performance, and long-term growth. Some of the other responsibilities include: 

What you'll be doing:

You will balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle.

• Lead the design and development of scalable C# services and secure RESTful APIs that power our billing and settlement systems.

• Contribute directly to core services and critical platform functionality while guiding architectural direction.

• Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability to support high-volume transaction processing.

• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical mentoring.

• Strengthen test coverage through comprehensive unit and integration testing to increase deployment confidence and system stability.

• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues using structured debugging and root cause analysis.

• Collaborate with Product Management, Site Reliability Engineering, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, resilient solutions.

• Contribute to technical estimation, solution design, and implementation planning for new features and platform improvements.

• Champion continuous improvement across tooling, observability, and engineering practices.

• Mentor and support engineers, helping grow capability and elevate technical standards across the team.

Success in this role will include delivering high-quality platform enhancements, improving system maintainability and performance, and strengthening the technical capability of the team.

Location: In this position, you can work from home 100% from anywhere in New Zealand, provided you have full working rights.  

What would make me a good candidate? 

You are someone who enjoys balancing technical depth with leadership impact. You take ownership of system quality and actively look for ways to strengthen performance, resilience, and maintainability. 

You are comfortable operating within distributed systems and understand the complexities of building secure, scalable payment platforms. You support your teammates, share knowledge openly, and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.

You are motivated by improving both technology and people raising standards, simplifying complexity, and building solutions that scale globally.

Required qualifications for this role:   

• Lead level of experience using C#, SQL Server and  developing secure, RESTful APIs 
• Strong system design capability within distributed, event-driven architectures.
• Working knowledge of agile software development life-cycles. 
• Have a keen eye for improvement in scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.  
• Experience contributing to architectural decisions while aligning with broader technical strategy. 
• Professional and articulate communications skills.  
• Prior experience leading or mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on in delivery.
• Clear and professional communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders..  

Desired Qualifications: 

•  Familiarity with major payment schemes (credit card, bank transfer, etc.) and/or point-of-sale equipment. 
• Experience with Microsoft Azure 

Values and Life at Xplor

Our four core values guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:

• Make life simple
• Build for people
• Move with purpose
• Create lasting communities.

If these values sound like you, and describe people you want to work with, you will thrive at Xplor.

As an Xplorer, you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will 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 are:

• Paid Parental Leave benefit programs
• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program
• Access to free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements
• Life and Health Insurance

Ready to apply?

To start your application, please submit your resume, and we will be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "moonshot" at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.

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 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

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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

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Xplor is 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 and we particularly encourage speakers of Te Reo Māori or Pasifika languages to apply.

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