Senior Software Developer

Summary

Join Lightspeed as a Senior Software Developer and contribute to building software solutions that empower merchants. Collaborate with a cross-functional team to deliver product features, develop maintainable code, and participate in technical design discussions. You will leverage your expertise in frontend/full-stack web development, preferably with Go, React, and Node.js, and experience with SaaS-based software in the public cloud. The role involves leading technical discussions, mentoring teammates, and ensuring the quality of features throughout the SDLC. Lightspeed offers a flexible work culture, including the option of fully remote work, along with various benefits such as unlimited paid time off, health insurance, and a health and wellness benefit.

Requirements

• Have a solid understanding of software engineering principles and best practices, and be prepared to help your team use those principles in practice
• Frontend/full-stack web development - preferably in Go, React and Node.js
• Experience developing, shipping and monitoring SaaS-based software in the public cloud (AWS or similar)
• Be comfortable leading technical design discussions
• Be able to help make technical decisions, organise & mentor teammates to achieve common goals and to help estimate delivery effectively
• Have a strong sense of ownership for your features throughout the SDLC and beyond
• Be able to analyse production environments, incidents and performance characteristics
• Have eagerness to improve existing features & systems and plan new ones

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, developers, designers, and other stakeholders as part of a cross-functional team to deliver product features and functionality
• Develop clean, well designed, highly maintainable services and code to create or extend functionality of our products
• Draft, discuss & implement technical designs that solve business problems for our customers
• Extend your own skills by learning from and growing with the team
• Be part of defining the product evolution as Lightspeed evolves its offerings to merchants & consumers globally
• Help celebrate achievements and have fun together along the way!

Preferred Qualifications

• Have hands-on experience with Continuous integration and deployment of SaaS applications
• Have hands-on experience with Building microservices and with monolith decomposition
• Have hands-on experience with Writing automated unit and integration tests
• Have hands-on experience with AWS as well as Docker & Kubernetes
• Have hands-on experience with Real time messaging systems (Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ) to drive asynchronous event-driven architecture
• Have hands-on experience with Relational (SQL) and/or NoSQL databases
• Have interest or experience in API-first design (REST, GraphQL)
• Have hands-on experience with Instrumentation and metrics
• Have hands-on experience with Technical leadership

Benefits

• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture and the option of fully remote work
• Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs everyday
• Opportunity to make a difference; help merchants grow their businesses and become more successful by creating or improving products and addressing customer feedback
• Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact
• 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 (we are all owners)
• Unlimited 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