Lightspeed is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join its Services organization, focusing on foundational services across the Lightspeed product portfolio. The role involves working on the Development team within the Services org, contributing to the development and maintenance of various features within the products the team owns. The Senior Software Developer will make valuable contributions to the overall codebase for new features or resolving bugs and help improve the architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver on sprint commitments through development of features & bugs across various services.
- Participate in development planning, retrospectives and demos.
- Help decompose high level requirements into development tasks and work items for delegation.
- Keep the team informed regarding expectations, priorities, release status and project schedules.
- Lead effort estimation for sprint and product roadmap deliverables.
- Initiate and contribute to continuous improvement of our software delivery processes and practices.
- Identify and encourage areas for growth, education and career development for your team.
- Participate in finding top talent for your team and the organization.
- Provide technical and process guidance to your team.
- Participate in code reviews in order to teach and enforce high standards of code quality.
- Support the tools and products that the team delivers.
Requirements:
- Strong software engineering and computer science fundamentals.
- Strong programming skills in either TypeScript, Go, Java, Node.js, Ruby or Rails or C#.
- Experience developing scalable, reliable applications on the cloud (AWS/GCP).
- Experience in various architectural paradigms in distributed systems such as event-driven services.
- Experience leading initiatives and feature work from design to production deployment.
- Strong sense of ownership and self-improvement, with a growth mindset.
Lightspeed offers:
- 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 counselling & coaching services.
- Volunteer day.
- Flexible/hybrid remote work options.
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Lightspeed Commerce
Lightspeed Commerce is a one-stop commerce platform empowering businesses worldwide. It offers cloud-based solutions that unify online and physical operations, multichannel sales, global payments, and financial solutions. Serving retail, hospitality, and golf industries across 100+ countries, Lightspeed helps merchants innovate, simplify processes, scale operations, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Founded in Montreal in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the NYSE and TSX, with teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The company builds communities through commerce, fostering an inclusive workplace.