Team Lead, Software Development

Summary

Join Lightspeed as a skilled Team Lead to build and guide our new Recommendations team. You will lead a team of engineers focused on implementing recommendation algorithms, developing APIs, and integrating systems. The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader with a software development background and a deep understanding of scalable systems. Responsibilities include recruiting, hiring, and managing a team, enhancing team growth, providing code reviews and design feedback, developing applications, collaborating with other teams, and improving software delivery processes. You will need proven experience leading developer teams, excellent communication and analytical skills, strong proficiency in Java or Python, and a solid understanding of development processes. Additional beneficial experience includes working with POS or eCommerce systems and experience with recommendation systems.

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
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach
• Strong proficiency in Java or Python
• Solid understanding of development processes, testing, and CI/CD best practices
• Strong knowledge of Web application concerns: REST, OAuth2, Caching
• Experience building scalable SaaS solutions
• Passion for learning new things and desire to improve continuously
• Solution-oriented and constructive mindset and ability to manage ambiguity

Responsibilities

• Build your team: Recruit, hire, and onboard top talent to form a high-performing recommendations team
• 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
• You 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in or experience with POS or eCommerce systems
• Expertise in data analysis, data mining, and working with large datasets
• Experience working on recommendation systems
• Experience with relational (eg. MySQL) or non-relational (eg. Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, Redis) databases
• Experience with Kafka or other messaging systems (eg. Pub/Sub)
• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent

Benefits

• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture with the option of working remotely or from one of our beautiful offices
• Genuine career growth opportunities within a company that's continuously expanding
• Make a meaningful impact by helping merchants grow their businesses through creating or improving products and addressing customer feedback
• Be part of a team large enough for growth yet agile enough for real impact
• Work on high-traffic products with a global user base
• Opportunities to learn, develop new skills, and expand your expertise
• Opportunity to work alongside other highly skilled engineers, learn and expand your skill set, forge wonderful relationships and make your mark within the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed culture, a true Canadian tech success story
• 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