Team Lead, Software Development

Summary

Join us as a Software Development Team Lead at Lightspeed! We're looking for a talented leader to guide and mentor a high-performing software development team, fostering an inclusive environment that inspires them to do their best work. As a leader at Lightspeed, your primary responsibility is to ensure the growth of your team members, while leading delivery and focusing on long-term business value.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading a team of developers through successful software projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to convey technical information to a wide variety of audiences
• Solid understanding of development processes, testing, and CI/CD best practices
• Experience delivering horizontally scalable applications and microservices
• Passion for learning new things and desire to improve continuously
• Solution-oriented and constructive mindset and ability to manage ambiguity

Responsibilities

• Be the trusted lead and partner of a development team of 5-6 members, guiding, motivating, and developing your team to solve complex business problems
• Enhance team growth through effective mentoring, coaching, and constructive feedback, while fostering a mutually supportive, inclusive, and collaborative environment
• Model lead-by-example excellence, provide high-quality code reviews and design feedback, and work to drive technical alignment in challenging areas
• Lead the way to develop performant, scalable, and maintainable applications, ensuring high technical quality and operational excellence in your area
• Collaborate closely with other teams, architects, product managers, and engineering leaders to align approaches and priorities
• Continuously improve our software delivery processes and practices, staying updated with industry trends to influence our strategic direction and foster innovation
• Provide technical and process guidance to your team, and participate in recruiting top talent for the organization

Benefits

• Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)
• Health & Wellness Credit - expense up to 400 EUR per year towards your gym membership, yoga classes, a new bike or whatever else you do for your health
• Mental Health Support through the Modern Health App - whether it is meditation, coaching or counseling you need - each employee gets access to this platform
• People Experience - Our PX benefit allows you to work from pretty much anywhere in the world for 60 days a year