Full-Time VP Engineering - SaaS
Xplor is hiring a remote Full-Time VP Engineering - SaaS. The career level for this job opening is Manager and is accepting Melbourne, Australia based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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As the VP of SaaS Engineering, 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.
Why this might be the right opportunity for you?
- You'll shape engineering roadmaps that directly influence our global fitness technology platform.
- Your architectural decisions will drive growth across our Connect & Ecosystem solutions
- You'll craft compelling business cases and lead initiatives that push industry boundaries.
- You'll lead multiple distributed engineering teams delivering software that power fitness communities worldwide.
- You'll champion modern SaaS practices while balancing technical excellence with business outcomes.
- You'll optimise processes and drive quality standards that set new industry benchmarks
- You'll mentor colleagues and shape next generation of technical leaders.
- You'll foster an engineering culture where innovation, accountability and continuous learning thrive.
- You'll expand our technical community and build partnerships that amplify our collective success.
What would make me a good candidate?
We're seeking visionary, empathetic leaders who excel at the intersection of strategic thinking and engineering excellence.
The ideal candidate inspires and develops engineering talent while building cultures of innovation, accountability, and continuous growth. You balance ambitious technology goals with business impact.
Required qualifications for the role:
- Previous leadership experience, ideally in a multi-region (global) SaaS environment with proven 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