Xplor Hiring for Intermediate Software Engineer (Elixir) Job at Melbourne, Australia Full Time

Take a seat on the Xplor rocketship and join us as Software Engineer – Elixir in Melbourne 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.

You’ll join Xplor Education and our Engineering team — 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 Developers create and maintain numerous products and services throughout the Xplor Education ecosystem including Office, Playground Web and Home Web

Reporting into Elixir Tech Lead, you’ll help us develop our product that allows 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 the country
• Independently create usable 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 and code review
• Regular exposure to business stakeholders and executive management, as well as the authority and scope to apply expertise to many interesting technical problems

What would make me a good candidate?

• Experience in Elixir programming language, if not ideally Ruby on Rails
• Experience working on large and complex software projects
• Full stack development and relational database experience
• Excellent communication skills and independent problem-solving intuitions
• Good handle of balancing tests vs delivery pressure
• Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle
• Ideally, you have experience with front-end languages such as PHP, Jquery, and React
• Motivated by a fast-evolving environment where you will have to constantly adapt – no two days are the same!
• 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

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
• 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 (Hybrid)

More about us

We’re the first global platform integrating software, payments and Commerce Accelerating Technologies to help businesses succeed. We offer software solutions for businesses in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ industries: Childcare & Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform.

With operations in North America, Australasia, Europe, and the UK, we serve over 75,000 businesses that processed over $27 billion in payments, in over 140 countries in 2020.

How to apply?

To start your application with us, please submit your CV and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word “moonshot” at the top of your cover letter so that we know you really took the time to read our job ad. Your contact is Sara – Senior Talent Partner.

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/au/careers.

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 strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

We are a 2022 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.