Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This VP Engineering remit sits squarely in a modern SaaS environment where product differentiation is increasingly shaped by platform choices, integration depth, and responsible use of AI. With Momence positioned inside Xplor’s broader portfolio, the role signals a need to align multiple engineering and product threads across a cloud software business that also operates an ecosystem of services and partners.
From a SaaS career perspective, the emphasis on platform landscape analysis, architectural trade offs, and technology roadmapping is a strong marker of executive level engineering work in subscription software. The focus on evolving delivery practices toward AI enabled and agentic workflows also reflects a current inflection point in SaaS, where leaders are expected to improve throughput without compromising reliability, security, or long term maintainability. Experience balancing vendor decisions, governance, and architectural debt translates directly across scaling SaaS organizations.
This role is best suited to a senior engineering leader who operates comfortably across strategy and execution, and who enjoys influencing through technical clarity rather than positional authority alone. It will fit someone motivated by cross team alignment, ecosystem thinking around APIs and integrations, and the discipline of making durable platform decisions under real product and growth constraints.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Company Description
At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours.
We give small and medium-sized businesses cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions that enable them to manage all the hassles of running and growing a business, so business owners can get back to doing what they love.
We are unified by our purpose of helping people to succeed. So, when you become part of our team, you also become part of the personal connection that strengthens the relationship people have with Xplor products
Job Description
As the VP of SaaS Engineering for Momence (Xplor), you play a crucial role in leading and managing the Momence engineering and product department. Your responsibilities involve overseeing multiple teams and you will lead the evolution of engineering practices toward agentic, AI-enabled delivery models, enabling teams to responsibly design, build, and ship AI-driven features that accelerate product innovation and customer value.
Core Responsibilities
Developing & Designing
- Analyze complex application and platform landscapes across SaaS, integrations, and ecosystem services
- Identify and guide high-impact, non-trivial technology decisions with clear trade-offs and long-term implications
- Define technology roadmaps and contribute to business case development aligned to product and growth strategy
Controlling & Managing
- Review vendor proposals and oversee in-flight technical work to ensure quality, scalability, and value realization
- Provide oversight for delivery execution, engineering quality, and architectural integrity
- Continuously optimize engineering and delivery practices, including modern, AI-enabled and agentic workflows
Building Community
- Advise and mentor internal leaders and teams on core technical concepts, frameworks, and emerging practices
- Build and leverage a strong network across the Xplor engineering community to share knowledge and accelerate outcomes
Qualifications
What You’ll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
- 10+ years of senior engineering leadership experience with a proven record of modernizing engineering practices and delivering complex, high-impact platforms
- Strong balance of deep technical expertise and business acumen, with the ability to lead and influence globally distributed teams
- Demonstrated experience in the Connect & Ecosystem domain, including integrations, APIs, partners, and platform capabilities
- Ownership of defining and executing an engineering strategy that drives innovation, scalability, and sustainable growth
- Strategic, hypothesis-driven mindset with a pragmatic, iterative approach and a bias toward action
- Self-directed leader with growing thought leadership and exposure to modern and emerging technologies
- Experience applying new (but proven) methodologies and ways of working to improve delivery outcomes
- Ability to balance dogmatism and pragmatism, articulate trade-offs, and drive high-impact decisions across areas such as SaaS/IaaS/PaaS providers, container orchestration, service mesh, API gateways, and commercial vs. open-source software
- Practical approaches to managing architectural debt, governance, and evolutionary architecture
- Strong understanding of AWS or cloud-native infrastructure, microservices architectures, API design, and implementation patterns
- Familiarity with microservices topologies and operational concerns including resiliency, observability, security, discovery, and routing
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
The average base salary pay range for this position is $230,000 - $260,000
May be considered for a discretionary annual bonus
Additional Information
Values and Life at 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.
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:
- 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary career
- #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
- 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.
More about us
We are 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 payment processing platform. With operations in North America, Australasia, Asia, Europe, and the UK, we serve over 106,000 customers that processed over $38 billion in payments across 20 markets in 2024.
Good to know
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