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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 to join our team.
Services organization at Lightspeed focuses on providing foundational services that provide core offerings across the Lightspeed product portfolio. In addition to a catered solution for our Golf merchants, Services org owns Financial Services (Payments, Capital), Scheduling Services, and Technical Services (Auth, Merchant Data).
As a Staff Software Developer, you will bring technical leadership to your team & overall Services organization. With strong technical expertise in building scalable & resilient systems & a passion for mentoring others, you will take an active role in leading your team to successfully land key initiatives. You will also help evolve the team processes in all facets of development - idea to delivery, production operations, etc.
Most important of all, you’ll work alongside a team of experts within a growing department providing foundational services to various products at Lightspeed & critical to its success. Note that we are looking for hire for multiple positions across different teams within Services at Lightspeed.
What you'll be responsible for:
- Lead others in your team & contribute towards enabling timely delivery of key initiatives on the roadmap, with minimal supervision
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Operations & other functions/teams to align the relevant stakeholders
- Decomposing high level requirements into development tasks and work items for delegation
- Evolving the technical architecture for the systems your team owns.
- Partnering with other technical leaders across the organization to evolve the overall technical ecosystem
- Bringing a strong commitment to engineering excellence spanning areas like code quality, observability and production operations among others
- Initiating and contributing to continuous improvement of our software delivery processes and practices
- Mentoring your team members and identifying and encouraging areas of growth and career development
- Participating in finding top talent for your team and the organization
What you’ll be bringing to the team:
- Expertise in engineering and computer science fundamentals
- Experience developing scalable, reliable applications on the cloud (we use GCP & AWS).
- Our current tech stack is Java, TS/JS, Node JS React .
- Experience leading multi-quarter, cross team initiatives and feature work from design to production deployment
- Strong sense of ownership, willingness to take informed risks and champion a blame-free culture
- Curiosity and a deep desire for continuous learning
- An ability to see the forest from the trees
Who you are:
- You have a passion for software development and a customer-focused mindset.
- You are a team player who can work with, and help grow, other developers.
- 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
What's in it for you?
- Join a fast-paced, high-growth company.
- Work on systems that handle billions of dollars in transactions for our merchants globally.
- Surround yourself with strong talent and enjoy continuous professional growth.
- Great benefits and perks, including equity and flexible/hybrid remote work options, in a diverse and inclusive environment.
- Development of very high traffic products, used at 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)
- 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
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At Lightspeed, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your skill set, qualifications, experience, and market data. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We reasonably expect the total compensation for this position to be in the range of $160,000 - $175,000 CAD. Lightspeed also provides a variety of employee benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance, RRSP plan and match, paid parental leave top-up, and paid time off.Please note that this compensation information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within Ontario and reflects the amount Lightspeed is willing to pay at the time of this posting. This role represents an existing vacancy at Lightspeed. Lightspeed uses artificial intelligence–enabled tools to support certain aspects of the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by our recruiting and hiring teams.
To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Where to from here?
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.
Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.
Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.
Lightspeed Commerce Toronto, Ontario, CAN Office
410 Adelaide St W, 501, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5V 1S4
