Senior Full Stack Software Developer, Lightspeed
React.js Focus
CA$140-150k
Plus equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
Point of Sale & commerce platform
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Point of Sale & commerce platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$140-150k
Plus equity
More information about location
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
- Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well... you might just be in the right place to join our team
- Strong software engineering and computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
- A minimum of 5 years of experience working as a Software Developer
- Experience working for a SaaS product-based company
- Strong experience building modern, scalable frontend applications using React
- Solid backend development experience with Kotlin and Java, including designing and maintaining APIs and services
- Experience designing and architecting distributed systems, preferably event-driven and microservice-based, ideally within the Financial Services domain
- Proven experience developing scalable, reliable applications on the cloud (AWS/GCP)
- Experience designing and setting up advanced monitoring systems and championing the overall observability culture
- Experience leading initiatives and feature work from system 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 always working towards the overall team’s success
- 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
- Acts as a vigilant steward of the codebase and technical processes, actively raising the bar
- As a global company with employees and clients outside of Quebec, fluency in English as a working language is required for this position
What the job involves
- The Financial Automation team at Lightspeed streamlines merchant operations by replacing labor-intensive manual processes like sales reconciliation with intelligent, AI driven, automated systems
- We bridge the gap between complex data and actionable insights, enabling our users to manage their growth without increasing their headcount
- As a Senior Full Stack Software Developer, in this role you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of various features within our mission-critical financial products, with a strong focus on frontend development (approximately 70%) and backend development (approximately 30%)
- You will make valuable contributions to the overall codebase by delivering new features, resolving bugs, improving system architecture, and supporting other related activities. You are expected to bring strong technical expertise, help the team accomplish their goals, evolve team processes and tooling, and take an active role in various production operations, including on-call rotations
- Drive strategic collaboration in development planning, retrospectives, and demos
- Lead the system design and architecture for new, large-scale features, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and maintainable
- Break down high-level requirements into well-defined development tasks and work items
- Manage and communicate expectations, priorities, release status, and project schedules to stakeholders and the team
- Lead effort estimation for sprint and product roadmap deliverables
- Champion continuous improvement of our software delivery processes and practices
- Actively mentor and coach team members, identifying areas for growth and career development
- Shape the future of the engineering workforce by actively participating in the recruitment process
- Provide technical and process guidance
- Elevate coding standards and best practices by conducting rigorous code reviews in a knowledge-sharing environment
- Continuously improve our existing tools and products to ensure technological advantage
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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Meet the team
45 people
Matthew Passmore, Field Implementation Team Lead
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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.
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