Senior Software Developer

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Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!

We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our Retail POS team in North America. Within the team, you'll build software solutions that help merchants grow the size and the profitability of their business. You'll join a product development team that believes in continuously delivering value, while following software engineering best practices and building robust, scalable solutions for our customers.

At Lightspeed, we are dedicated to bringing cities and communities to life by empowering small and medium businesses. Come help us build our communities!

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborating with product managers, developers, designers, and other stakeholders as part of a cross-functional team to deliver product features and functionality
• Developing clean, well designed, highly maintainable services and code to create or extend functionality of our products
• Drafting, discussing & implementing technical designs that solve business problems for our customers
• Extending your own skills by learning from and growing with the team
• Be part of defining the product evolution as Lightspeed evolves its offerings to merchants & consumers globally
• Helping us all celebrate our achievements and have fun together along the way!

What you’ll be bringing to the team: 

We're looking for a Senior Software Developer who has experience with the following:

• You should have a solid understanding of software engineering principles and best practices, and be prepared to help your team use those principles in practice.
• Frontend/full-stack web development - preferably in Go, React and Node.js. 
• Experience developing, shipping and monitoring SaaS-based software in the public cloud (AWS or similar). 
• Comfortable leading technical design discussions.
• Able to help make technical decisions, organise & mentor teammates to achieve common goals and to help estimate delivery effectively.
• A strong sense of ownership for your features throughout the SDLC and beyond.
• Ability to analyse production environments, incidents and performance characteristics
• Eagerness to improve existing features & systems and plan new ones.

Even better if you have hands-on experience with:

• Continuous integration and deployment of SaaS applications
• Building microservices and with monolith decomposition
• Writing automated unit and integration tests
• AWS as well as Docker & Kubernetes
• Real time messaging systems (Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ) to drive asynchronous event-driven architecture
• Relational (SQL) and/or NoSQL databases
• Interest or experience in API-first design (REST, GraphQL)
• Instrumentation and metrics
• Technical leadership

What’s in it for you?

Come live the Lightspeed experience...

• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture and the option of fully remote work
• Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs everyday
• Opportunity to make a difference; help merchants grow their businesses and become more successful by creating or improving products and addressing customer feedback
• Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact
• Development of very high traffic products, used at the global scale
• Opportunities to learn and expand your skill set
• Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family

… and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry:

• Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)
• Unlimited 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

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