Principal Software Developer

Job Description

Lightspeed is seeking a talented and experienced Principal Engineer to join their growing Services organization. The Principal Engineer will guide the design and architecture of critical system components across the Services organization and personally contribute to key parts of the systems to deliver innovative solutions that meet customer needs. This role involves upleveling engineering craft across the organization by providing technical guidance, promoting best practices, and mentoring fellow engineers, while empowering teams to build towards a sustainable architecture.

What this role involves:

• Ensuring systems built to support new initiatives are well designed and scalable.
• Analyzing existing systems and infrastructure landscape, identifying opportunities to improve architecture, reduce duplication, make systems more performant and robust.
• Identifying key recurring patterns leading to incidents and non-project overhead, and coming up with a plan to address those.
• Driving improvements in our systems reliability and performance.
• Improving development practices, from design reviews, to testing and deployment, and to incident management.
• Conducting architectural deep-dives and mentoring key members across all services teams.
• Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organizational objectives.

Requirements:

• 15+ years of professional experience in software development.
• 5+ years of experience as a technical leader for multiple teams.
• 2+ years of experience in managing architecture across multiple teams with more than 35+ engineers.
• History of developing business-critical systems at scale, to run on the cloud.
• History of delivering key outcomes for the business, under challenging timelines.
• Experience in more than one technology stack such as Java, RoR, Python, .NET, etc.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey ideas concisely.
• Ability to moderate technical conversations, handle diverse opinions, and make quick decisions.

What Lightspeed offers:

• Join a fast-paced, high-growth company.
• Work on systems that handle billions of dollars in transactions for our merchants globally.
• Surround yourself with strong talent and enjoy continuous professional growth.
• Develop in a modern and proven technology stack.
• Great benefits and perks, including equity and flexible/hybrid remote work options, in a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Development of very high traffic products, used at the global scale.
• Opportunities to learn and expand your skill set.
• Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family.
• Lightspeed equity scheme.
• Flexible paid time off policy.
• Health Insurance.
• Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year.
• Paid leave and assistance for new parents.
• Mental health online platform and counseling & coaching services.
• Volunteer day.