Development Team Lead, Lightspeed

Salary not provided
Python
Java
Flask
Spring
FastAPI
Senior and Expert level
Berlin

3-5 days a week in office

Lightspeed

Point of Sale & commerce platform

Job no longer available

Lightspeed

Point of Sale & commerce platform

1001+ employees

HospitalityRetailB2BInternal tools

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
Python
Java
Flask
Spring
FastAPI
Senior and Expert level
Berlin

3-5 days a week in office

1001+ employees

HospitalityRetailB2BInternal tools

Company mission

To bring the streets of our cities and communities to life by powering business owners with technology.

Role

Who you are

  • 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
  • If you have a Frontend Development background:
  • Advanced skills in Typescript, React
  • Full-stack web development familiarity is a strong plus
  • If you have a Backend Development background:
  • Advanced skills in Java: Spring Framework or
  • Advanced skills in Python: FastAPI, Flask Frameworks
  • You are a problem solver who does not shy away from tackling complexity and critical thinking
  • You have a strong will to learn, grow, and leave your comfort zone
  • You have great energy and passion for technology

Desirable

  • Interest in or experience with POS or eCommerce systems
  • Experience building scalable SaaS solutions
  • Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent

What the job involves

  • We're looking for a talented Software Development Team Lead to help us lead, mentor, and coach a high-performing software development team while fostering an inclusive environment that inspires them to do the best work of their career to date
  • As a leader at Lightspeed, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Lightspeed
  • You also lead the team's delivery, enabling productive and sustainable ways of working while focusing on the most important things that bring long-term business value
  • As a leader of strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software development are a must so that you can challenge and grow your team members. You will also be able to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution
  • Under your guidance, the team will take on the critical mission of supporting and enhancing our Restaurant Point-of-Sale product, helping businesses worldwide streamline their operations. You foster and strengthen a healthy, highly collaborative, and continuously learning culture across the teams
  • 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 and microservices, 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

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

Lightspeed provides restaurateurs and retailers with the simplest way to run their businesses at full potential. It helps entrepreneurs offer their customers positive and memorable experiences by taking care of the day-to-day management aspects of their business.

Around 75,000 businesses processing over $17 billion in transactions annually use Lightspeed’s restaurant POS software and omnichannel retail solution to manage inventory, customer preferences, sales and reporting — all from one centralised platform. Headquartered in Montreal, Lightspeeds team is distributed across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, now serving over 150,000 locations worldwide.

Lightspeed POS maintains a unique edge over other companies of its type because it has secured the legal rights for the sole use of certain technologies. It has two registered patents in computing, calculating categories. These patents certify that Lightspeed POS is the sole owner of this intellectual property, which means that no other companies can use them.

Insights

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

35% female employees

7% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • With Lightspeed PX, you can enjoy flexible paid time off and up to 2 months remote per year with our hybrid work policy
  • Equity options, because this is your company too
  • Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters
  • Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
  • Health and wellness credit so you feel your best
  • Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
  • Interest groups, from #coffee_pals to sponsored sports teams
  • Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook

Company values

  • We make it matter.
  • We make it happen.
  • We make it together.
  • We make it human.
  • We make it about the customer.
  • We make it data driven.

Company HQ

Old Montreal, Montreal, QC

Founders

Dax Dasilva

(Executive Chair)

Founder of Never Apart, previously Developer of Bitmovers. Studied Computer Science, Art History, and Religious Studies at The University of British Columbia. Served as CEO for Lightspeed for 17 years until 2022.

JP Chauvet

(CEO, not founder)

Co-founded Chardonnat and served as CEO of Atex and as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for both Nstein Technologies and IXIASOFT.

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