Tech Lead - Python

Company Description

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. 

You’ll join Xplor Fitness & Wellbeing engineering — the team that builds innovative and intuitive solutions that enable gym owners and trainers to connect their clients with amazing fitness experiences. Personal training. Yoga. Bootcamp. Barre — you name it. We offer the services they need, so that they can focus on what really matters — helping their members and clients succeed. 

You’ll work on our Mariana Tek product. Mariana Tek is a studio management software built by real players in the fitness industry. We take all the complexities of running a studio and make it easy to use, brand centric, and fitness focused. 

Our core values - Make Life Simple, Build for People, Move with Purpose, and Create Lasting Communities are key to who we are and what guides us from how we hire to how we recognize our team members.

Job Description

We are looking for experienced software engineers who are excited about the leading our professional services team as we accelerate our business.

As a member of the team, you will help us analyze integrations with new clients, review data models for ETL processing into our platform, developing custom front end and back end functionality to enable custom requirements, acting as a lead for more junior engineers to ensure solution correctness and providing mentorship. You will be customer facing to field questions that may rise during the integration process. In addition, develop the APIs, services, and infrastructure that powers our best-in-class studio management software and customer-facing products. You will work closely with a smart and dedicated team to solve challenging problems across a variety of domains, including e-commerce, internationalization, reporting, and many more.

Some of the other responsibilities you’ll have include:

• Contributing clean, performant code

• Designing, building, and maintaining reliable public-facing APIs

• Collaborating closely with product stakeholders, designers, and your fellow engineers to deliver features that support our business objectives

• Refactoring and optimizing code in line with existing and emergent best practices

• Proactively writing tests and documentation to ensure the health and maintainability of shipped code

• Providing constructive feedback on your colleagues’ pull requests, and accept constructive feedback on your own PRs in return

• Participating actively and thoughtfully in the full Agile development lifecycle, from planning to testing to release

Qualifications

You may be a good fit for this role if you have experience with:

• 2+ years of experience building web applications in a full-stack capacity.

• Experience in working with relational databases, PostgreSQL/RDS Aurora a significant plus (NoSQL datastore knowledge nice-to-have)

• Experience implementing externally facing APIs

• Bonus points for experience building SaaS platforms or customer-facing applications

• Experience with Agile software development methodologies.

• Working with technologies and frameworks similar to those we use most often. Our stack includes Python, Django, DRF, Javascript, Ember.js, and React. While direct experience with these technologies is certainly an asset, related experience and an eagerness to learn are great too!

• Communicating clearly and kindly with technical and non-technical colleagues.

Additional Information

Some 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.

• Competitive Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary caregiver

• Unlimited access to Udemy for Business, 10% of your time devoted to growing you and your career, and further support to help you grow.

• May be considered for a discretionary bonus 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards (LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, etc) only. Please don't send your application via email. They will not be forwarded. 

More about us 

We're 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 payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

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. 

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

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/us/recruitment-faqs.

Xplor is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.

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