Junior Python Developer, Lightspeed
+ Equity
1-3 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
1-3 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
- Great communication skills
- Fluent in Python, with knowledge of FastAPI, Flask, or Django
- Experience with Docker, including Dockerfiles and Compose
- Scripting skills with Bash
- Testing mentality and practices
- You are enthusiastic to learn about new technologies in a short time
- You are a team player who likes to contribute to discussions and share your experience
- You are self-motivated and can function effectively in a team environment with minimum supervision
- You are always seeking improvement and progress
- You can approach a problem methodically to identify and resolve technical issues
- You are eager to make decisions and not afraid of making mistakes
Desirable
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Knowledge about Helm, especially templating
- Experience with CI/CD, particularly CircleCI
- Familiarity with Cloud Service providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Specific experience with AWS services and familiarity with their concepts
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog and NewRelic
- Experience with Ansible
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer/DevOps Engineer in the Developer Experience squad, you will support Lightspeed’s Hospitality product group in its mission to expand our reach into new markets and countries while enhancing our advanced hospitality commerce platform
- We seek a motivated Software or DevOps Engineer to work at the intersection of development and infrastructure
- This means closely collaborating with all developers and our SRE team, which manages the infrastructure
- You will join a healthy and collaborative team, continuously improving our engineering practices and delivering state-of-the-art technology while keeping it fun
- Above all, your work will change the way the world experiences hospitality!
- In this role, you will focus on improving and creating best-in-class infrastructure, tooling, and automation that enable and empower our development team to continuously deliver great features to our customers
- Optimizing and improving tooling and automation to create ephemeral preview environments for development, manual, and automated testing on Kubernetes
- Maintaining, improving, and evolving CI/CD configurations for building, pushing, and deploying existing and new microservices to Kubernetes clusters
- Managing, improving, and automating the orchestration of macOS virtual machines used for iOS test automation in CI
- Developing OpenAPI tooling and automation to manage API documentation for all microservices
- Building automation and tooling to reduce waiting times, boost productivity, and ensure a seamless experience when working on the product
- Improve the experience while working on our product
- Maintain the existing solutions to help develop our product and innovate new ways to improve our team’s developer experience
- Develop clean and highly maintainable code
- Extend our continuous integration / continuous deployment environment
- Extend your very own skills by learning from and growing with the team
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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Insights
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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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