Senior Software Developer

Summary

Join Lightspeed as a Senior Software Developer (Ruby) and contribute to enhancing our cloud-based point-of-sale products. Collaborate with a high-performing team to expand our reach into new markets and countries. You will be responsible for creating, extending, and maintaining critical systems, developing clean and maintainable code, and engaging with stakeholders to define solutions. The ideal candidate possesses 3+ years of experience in Ruby and Java development, AWS or similar cloud environments, and a strong understanding of computer systems. We offer a flexible work culture, opportunities for growth, amazing benefits, and a chance to be part of a diverse and inclusive company.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience developing and shipping production-grade Ruby and Java systems
• 3+ years experience developing within AWS or similar Cloud environments
• Solid understanding of computer systems and service architectures
• Empathy to view situations from our customers perspectives
• Strong desire to collaborate with other developers, be that pairing, code reviews, whiteboard sessions, etc
• A strong sense of ownership of all aspects throughout the SDLC and beyond
• Demonstrated experience creating unit and integration tests for complex systems
• Eagerness to improve existing systems and plan new ones, pragmatically

Responsibilities

• Create, extend, and maintain critical systems across a number of products in collaboration with the existing team
• Develop clean and highly maintainable code
• Engage with our Product Managers, Architects, Developers, and other stakeholders to define unambiguous, pragmatic solutions
• Engage during incidents with a sense of responsibility to our customers and your team
• Analyze production environments, incidents and performance characteristics to drive remediation, both with your team and with collaboration of stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with eventual consistency and distributed client models
• Experience in microservice architectures
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Experience with container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc)
• Experience with real time messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc)
• Experience with both relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) datastores (Dynamo, Redis, Firestore)
• A keen interest in API design
• Computer Sciences degree or equivalent

Benefits

• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture and possibility of remote work
• Development of very high traffic products, used at the global scale
• Exposure to modern and proven technology
• Opportunity to learn and expand your skill set
• Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles
• Amazing benefits & perks, including equity for all Lightspeeders
• Opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-growth company
• Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family