Job Description
Company Description
Xplor Technologies powers the experiences at the heart of everyday life. Through modern vertical software, embedded payments, and AI-powered capabilities, we help businesses in fitness, recreation, golf and club, field services, laundry, education, and other membership-based and service-based industries simplify operations, uncover insights, and elevate customer and member experiences.
Job Description
About the opportunity
Join our Global Technology Team as Senior Software Engineer in New Zealand to make a real impact every day. We say that because we know that every conversation we have, every code line we write and every interface we design is another opportunity for us to elevate everyday life experiences for our customers and the people and communities they serve.
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:
- 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.
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.
Qualifications
What would make me a good candidate?
You are someone who takes 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.
You’ll need:
- Senior 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.
- Clear and professional communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
It would be great if you also have:
- Familiarity with major payment schemes (credit card, bank transfer, etc.) and/or point-of-sale equipment.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure.
At Xplor, we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersections of our differences - people of diverse cultures, generations, disciplines, and lived experiences. So even if you think you do not tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.
Additional Information
Values and Life at Xplor
Our five core values guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:
- Find a better way
- Do the right thing
- Say it straight
- Win together
- Own the outcome
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
- Learning resources available to continue to develop your skills and career development.
- Access to free mental health support
- Flexible working arrangements
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
More than 130,000 businesses in 72+ countries rely on Xplor to run their day and get paid, processing over $47 billion in payments annually. Our connected ecosystem helps operators spend less time managing complexity and more time delivering the experiences that matter most.
Xplor is backed by world-class investors Advent International, Battery Ventures, and Silver Lake.
Good to know
We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please don’t send your application via email. They will not be forwarded.
To learn more about us and our products, please visit xplor.com/careers/.
We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process xplor.com/recruitment-faqs/.
EEO and Artificial Intelligence
We believe in transparent hiring. We use an applicant tracking system that includes artificial intelligence enabled features to assist with the screening and assessment of job applications, such as candidate scoring or ranking. These tools support our recruitment process, but all hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team following human review. We do not rely on artificial intelligence to make final hiring decisions.
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.
We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.
We make it a priority to respond to each person who applies.
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