Senior Software Developer, Lightspeed
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
Point of Sale & commerce platform
Job no longer available
Point of Sale & commerce platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ 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
- Strong software engineering and computer science fundamentals
- Strong programming skills in TypeScript, Java or C#
- Developing Typescript/Node backend applications running on the cloud is preferred
- Comfortable working in more than one major programming language
- Experience developing scalable, reliable applications on the cloud (we use AWS/GCP)
- Knowledge of various architectural paradigms in distributed systems such as event-driven services
- Experience leading initiatives and feature work from design to production deployment
- Strong sense of ownership and self-improvement, with a growth mindset
- 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 senior individual contributor on the team, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of various features in the Capital platform
- Contribute to the overall architecture, to the codebases for features, bugs and other related activities
- As a Senior Engineer, you are expected to bring strong technical expertise, help the team accomplish their goals, help evolve the team’s process and tooling, etc
- They will take an active role in various production operations, including on-call rotations
- You’ll work with Financial Services experts within a growing department that is a big part of Lightspeed’s success
- You’ll also give our merchants access to more cash flow that will help them grow their business
- Deliver on the sprint commitments through development of features & bugs across various services
- Participate in development planning, retrospectives and demos
- Help decompose high level requirements into development tasks and work items for delegation
- Keep the team informed regarding expectations, priorities, release status and project schedules
- Lead effort estimation for sprint and product roadmap deliverables
- Initiate and contribute to continuous improvement of our software delivery processes and practices
- Identify and encourage areas for growth, education and career development for your team
- Participate in finding top talent for your team and the organization
- Provide technical and process guidance to your team
- Participate in code reviews in order to teach and enforce high standards of code quality
- Support 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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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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