Staff Software Developer

Summary

Join Lightspeed's high-performing software development team as a Staff Software Developer! Collaborate on enhancing cloud-based point-of-sale products, supporting the Hospitality product group's expansion into new markets. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies to improve the customer experience for restaurant owners. This role requires strong technical leadership, hands-on experience, mentoring skills, and a collaborative approach. You'll be responsible for creating, maintaining, and extending critical systems, developing clean code, and engaging with stakeholders. If you're passionate about problem-solving and enjoy working in a global team, this opportunity is for you!

Requirements

• 5+ years experience developing and shipping production-grade Ruby and Java systems
• 5+ 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 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