Staff Software Developer, Lightspeed

• Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!
• If you’re a technical leader with hands-on experience, a track record of mentoring, and a reputation for delivering great software, you might be a perfect fit
• We’re looking for someone who enjoys problem-solving, pragmatism, and collaboration to build products that solve real-world problems globally
• Your hands-on approach and curiosity will help drive the team’s success
• Smooth communication and collaboration with Product, Development, and SRE teams worldwide will be key to the team's success
• If you’re inspired by technical challenges, solutions that impact thousands of customers daily, and striving for excellence within an international team, we’d love to hear from you
• 5+ years experience developing and shipping production-grade Ruby and Java systems
• 5+ years experience developing within AWS or similar Cloud environments
• Solid understanding of computer systems and service architectures
• Empathy to view situations from our customers perspectives
• Strong desire to collaborate with other developers, be that pairing, code reviews, whiteboard sessions, etc
• A strong sense of ownership of all aspects throughout the SDLC and beyond
• Ability to analyze production environments, incidents and performance characteristics to drive remediation, both with your team and with collaboration of stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience creating unit and integration tests for complex systems
• Eagerness to improve existing systems and plan new ones, pragmatically
• You are a team-player who likes to contribute to discussions and share your own experiences knowing that teams create the best solutions, not lone individuals
• You are self-motivated with the ability to function effectively in a team environment with minimum supervision
• You are always seeking improvement and progress
• You are eager to make decisions and not afraid of making mistakes or asking for help and input from others

Desirable

• We are looking for a new Staff Software Developer to join our high-performing software development team and help cultivate an inclusive environment where the team can do their best work
• You will collaborate on enhancing one of our cloud-based point-of-sale products
• You will be supporting Lightspeed's Hospitality product group on the mission to expand our reach into new markets and countries while enhancing our Cloud POS
• You will join our global team of developers to use cutting edge technologies to help restaurant owners to provide the best experience to their customers
• Creating, extending, and maintaining critical systems across a number of products in collaboration with the existing team
• Developing clean and highly maintainable code
• Engaging with our Product Managers, Architects, Developers, and other stakeholders to define unambiguous, pragmatic solutions
• Engaging during incidents with a sense of responsibility to our customers and your team