Director of Engineering, Lightspeed
+ Equity
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3-5 days a week in office
Point of Sale & commerce platform
Open for applications
Point of Sale & commerce platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring the streets of our cities and communities to life by powering business owners with technology.
Role
Who you are
- Deep knowledge and understanding of software engineering principles, technologies and best practices
- Has a strong software development background with a history of being an engineer & expertise in multiple mainstream technology stacks (RoR, Node, JVM, .NET, etc)
- Expertise in software architecture & design of scalable, maintainable & resilient systems that run on the cloud across regions
- Expertise in modern software delivery practices (continuous delivery, lean practices, etc)
- Operational Excellence Mindset: Experience running & managing operations of business critical systems on the cloud
- People management: experience in hiring, performance management, and growth
- Experience leading other leaders in a software engineering organization
- Experience owning technology/product for a clear line of business or a complete product
- Experience working in product engineering and/or SaaS software delivery is a plus
- The hunger to learn across the core areas of your domain, to synthesize insights from your learnings and to leverage those insights in your team
- Highly collaborative and effective team member
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Director, Software Development to run an engineering organization for our Golf product
- You will be responsible for supporting engineering teams building out cloud-based golf management platform trusted by thousands of golf clubs
- In this role, you will be working directly with a group of Software Development Managers to help their teams deliver on their goals, continuously improve their processes, tooling, and performance
- You will be working closely with Product and Design to efficiently execute on the roadmap while balancing product goals with engineering excellence
- You’ll make sure we’re growing a diverse, happy, and high-performing organization of Software Engineers
- Ultimately responsible for the output of engineering teams in your group, and the value they deliver to our golf clubs. You’ll work with your SDMs to ensure their teams are able to do great work and rapidly deliver value
- Collaborate with your Product, Design and Operations peers to solve problems that might block teams from shipping
- Ensure we have the teams & their roadmaps structured and aligned with the business goals
- Responsible for the performance of your engineering teams. You’ll work with SDMs to understand individual and group performance, then follow up with action to make sure people are working at their best
- Build and lead high-performance & engaged software engineering teams. Work with the SDMs to develop a performance-oriented culture
- Groom future leaders from within the organization
- Bring strategy mindset to the table, define and communicate a clear vision & direction aligned with the organization goals
- Navigate through complexity and chaos to bring clarity to their teams
- Thoughtful and decisive in decision making. Make informed decisions, fast
- Manage organizational, cultural & technical changes within the organization
- Ensure that the teams are using processes that result in great outcomes for our stakeholders
- Ensure that technologies and platforms are appropriate, and solve the problems at hand, while also future-proofing and catering for forecasted scale
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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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
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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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