VP Engineering - SaaS

Overview

About the opportunity

As the VP of SaaS Engineering for Xplor Technologies, you play a crucial role in leading and managing the SaaS Xplor Gym engineering department. Your responsibilities involve overseeing multiple teams and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software products. This role requires a strategic and hands-on leader who can balance execution with innovation driving delivery excellence, scaling teams, and aligning technology strategy with business outcomes. The VP of Engineering will be responsible for shaping the engineering culture, maturing our SDLC practices, and ensuring our products are scalable, secure, and delight customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead SaaS Xplor Gym engineering department, overseeing multiple teams and ensuring delivery of high-quality software products.
• Balance execution with innovation, drive delivery excellence, scale teams, and align technology strategy with business outcomes.
• Shape engineering culture, mature SDLC practices, and ensure products are scalable, secure, and customer-delighting.
• Develop engineering roadmaps and architectural decisions that influence the global fitness technology platform and the Connect & Ecosystem solutions.
• Lead initiatives that push industry boundaries, mentor colleagues, and develop the next generation of technical leaders.
• Champion modern SaaS practices while balancing technical excellence with business outcomes.
• Optimize processes and drive quality standards that set new benchmarks, expand technical community, and build partnerships.

Location: This role is fully remote within Australia, open to candidates with full working rights. Some overlap in working hours across time zones is important, and occasional business travel will be required.

Qualifications

What would make me a good candidate?

We are seeking visionary, empathetic leaders who excel at the intersection of strategic thinking and engineering excellence, thrive in dynamic, scaling environments, and drive meaningful outcomes for customers and teams. The ideal candidate inspires and develops engineering talent, builds cultures of innovation and accountability, and balances ambitious technology goals with business impact. Please align with Xplor's core values by thinking big, acting decisively, and putting people first.

Required qualifications for the role:

• Leadership experience, ideally in a multi-region (global) SaaS environment with a track record of driving innovation.
• Deep expertise in Connect & Ecosystem technologies with strategic thinking capabilities.
• Culture builder who sets the tone for high delivery, accountability, and quality.
• Global team experience leading geographically distributed engineering organisations.
• Change agent mindset focused on simplifying processes and driving continuous improvement.
• Expert-level understanding of AWS/cloud-native infrastructure and microservices.
• Mastery of SaaS/IaaS/PaaS platforms, container orchestration, and service mesh architectures.
• Strong grasp of API design, architectural governance, and managing technical debt.
• Experience with operational concerns including resiliency, observability, and security.

Additional Information

Values and Life at Xplor

Our four core values - Make life simple, Build for people, Move with purpose and Create lasting communities - guide us from hiring to recognition. We are a global network of talented colleagues who support success and deliver great work while growing at speed. Perks and benefits include:

• 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for primary and secondary carers
• #GiveBackDays – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community
• Diversity & Inclusion initiatives including D&I Council and Global Mentorship Program
• Access to free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements

Ready to apply?

To start your application, please submit your resume. Include the word "moonshot" at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you read the job ad.

We welcome diverse candidates and ask you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process via

More about us

We are the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We operate in Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services, with a global cloud-based