Senior Principal Software Developer, Lightspeed

Salary not provided

+ Equity

Python
.NET
Java
Expert level
Toronto

3-5 days a week in office

Lightspeed

Point of Sale & commerce platform

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Lightspeed

Point of Sale & commerce platform

1001+ employees

HospitalityRetailB2BInternal tools

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

+ Equity

Python
.NET
Java
Expert level
Toronto

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

  • 15+ years of professional experience in software development
  • 5+ years of experience as a technical leader for multiple teams
  • 2+ years of experience in managing architecture across multiple teams with more than 35+ engineers
  • History of developing business critical systems at scale, to run on the cloud
  • History of delivering key outcomes for the business, under challenging timelines
  • Experience in more than one technology stack such as Java, RoR, Python, .NET, etc
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey ideas concisely
  • Ability to moderate technical conversations, handle diverse opinions, and make quick decisions
  • 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 lead features, solve problems, and research new technologies
  • You set ambitious goals, and act with a sense of urgency and focus

Desirable

  • Expertise in distributed systems and building multi-region systems for the cloud
  • Deep expertise in domain-driven software development
  • Ability to lead and guide a team of engineers while contributing alongside them
  • Payments or Financial Systems experience
  • Experience with people management responsibilities

What the job involves

  • As a hands-on Senior Principal Engineer, you’ll guide design and architecture of the critical system components across the Services org, and personally contribute to the key parts of the systems to deliver innovative solutions that meet customer needs. You will uplevel engineering craft across the organization, by providing technical guidance, promoting best practices, mentoring fellow engineers, while empowering the teams to build towards a sustainable architecture
  • Ensuring that systems built to support new initiatives are well designed and scalable
  • Analyzing existing systems and infrastructure landscape, identifying opportunities to improve architecture, reduce duplication, make systems more performant and robust
  • Identifying key recurring patterns leading to incidents and non-project overhead, and coming up with a plan to address those
  • Driving improvements in our systems reliability and performance
  • Improving development practices, from design reviews, to testing and deployment, and to incident management
  • You conduct architectural deep-dives and mentor key members across all services teams
  • As a senior member of the engineering team, you will also play a key in developing a high-performance culture in the Services organization
  • Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organizational objectives even if this means doing things that aren’t strictly within the scope of your role

Our take

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.

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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

Leadership

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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