Senior Software Developer

Summary

Join Lightspeed's Services organization as a Senior or Intermediate Software Developer and contribute to the development and maintenance of various features within our product portfolio. You will work on a team responsible for building and maintaining core offerings across Lightspeed's products, including Financial Services, Scheduling Services, and Technical Services. As a Senior Engineer, you will bring strong technical expertise, help the team achieve its goals, and contribute to process and tooling improvements. You will also participate in production operations, including on-call rotations. This role offers the opportunity to work with experts in a growing department and make a significant impact on Lightspeed's success. Multiple positions are available across different teams within the Services organization.

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 (we use 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
• You have a passion for software development and a customer-focused mindset
• You are a team player always working towards the overall team’s success
• You understand the need for constant improvement, self-growth, and accountability
• You step up to solve problems for the business
• You set ambitious goals, and act with a sense of urgency and focus

Responsibilities

• Deliver on the 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

Benefits

• Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)
• 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
• Work abroad policy
• Remote work