Staff Software Developer, Lightspeed
Plus equity
3-5 days a week in office
Point of Sale & commerce platform
Be an early applicant
Point of Sale & commerce platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Plus equity
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
- Expertise in engineering and computer science fundamentals
- Expertise and well formed opinions on developing and maintaining distributed systems at scale
- Expert programming skills in Go, TypeScript, Python, Java or C#
- Experience developing scalable, reliable applications on the cloud (we use AWS/GCP)
- Experience in working with search systems (we use ElasticSearch), measuring result performance and tuning for optimal outcomes
- Comfort with working in more than one major programming language
- 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
- 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 the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer on the Universal Catalog team, you will be responsible for the technical evolution, development and maintenance of systems and business functionality in Lightspeed’s B2B Network
- As a Staff Engineer, you are expected to bring strong technical expertise, a great understanding of distributed systems, a passion for mentoring others and experience with evolving the team’s process, tooling, etc
- You will take an active role in leading various production operations, including production support
- Most importantly, you’ll work with retail and wholesale experts in a rapidly growing department that is a big part of Lightspeed’s success
- Evolving the technical architecture to help scale Universal Catalog
- Collaborating closely with Product and Operations to enhance the business functionality
- Partnering with other technical leaders across the Retail 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
- Delivering on roadmap commitments through development of features & bugs across various services
- Decomposing high level requirements into development tasks and work items for delegation
- 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
- Supporting the tools and products that the team delivers
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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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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