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Lightspeed Commerce

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2005

☁️ SaaS

🛒 Retail

SaaS • Retail

Lightspeed Commerce is a cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) and payments SaaS platform that powers in-person and online commerce for retailers, restaurants, golf facilities and wholesalers. It provides omnichannel POS, inventory management, eCommerce, payments and reconciliation, workforce and payroll, analytics/insights (including Lightspeed AI), hardware integrations, capital/funding, and wholesale tools (NuORDER). Lightspeed emphasizes scalable, customizable systems for multi-location businesses and reports supporting ~150,000 customer locations worldwide.

📋 Description

• 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 • Conducting architectural deep-dives and mentor key members across all services teams • 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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 Go, PHP, Java, RoR, Python, 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 • Expertise in distributed systems and building multi-region systems for the cloud (even better if you have, but not necessary) • Deep expertise in domain-driven software development (even better if you have, but not necessary) • Ability to lead and guide a team of engineers while contributing alongside them (even better if you have, but not necessary) • Retail or Ecommerce domain experience (even better if you have, but not necessary) • Experience with people management responsibilities (even better if you have, but not necessary)

🏖️ Benefits

• Amazing benefits & perks, including equity for all Lightspeeders • Constant development of both your skill-set and business acumen with limitless growth opportunities • Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture • Innovation time to explore and learn at work • Shaping the company by joining cultural & technical committees • Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles • Health insurance • Contributions to your pension plan - RRSP • Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year • Paid leave and assistance for new parents • Mental health online platform and counseling & coaching services • Training opportunities to grow your skills and career • Volunteer day • Fully stacked kitchen (hot and cold beverages, meals served) • Happy hours to build your relationships with colleagues after work