Principal Software Developer

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🕒 July 28

🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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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 • 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 Retail 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.

🎯 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.

🏖️ 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 • Opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-growth company • Opportunity to learn, expand your skill set, forge wonderful relationships and make your mark within the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family, a true Canadian tech success story • Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners). • Flexible paid time off and remote work policies. • 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