Mobile Development Tech Lead, Lightspeed
React Native
2-3 days a week in office
Point of Sale & commerce platform
Open for applications
Point of Sale & commerce platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
2-3 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
- Proven Track Record: Senior level experience in developing and shipping production-grade React Native and TypeScript applications across Android and iOS platforms
- Technical Proficiency: Strong understanding of mobile and frontend technologies (React, React Native, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin, etc), integrating backend services and other mobile application development considerations like authentication, APIs, connectivity, etc
- Native App Development: Experience in developing & debugging native apps for iOS using XCode, Swift and Android Studio with Java/Kotlin
- Deployment Experience: Understanding of release/build/deployment lifecycles, including navigating App Store and Play Store limitations and hurdles
- Mobile App Architecture & Design Principles: Demonstrated ability in object-oriented design, functional programming, refactoring and mobile app architectures to ensure scalability and maintainability
- Testing Expertise: Demonstrated experience creating unit and automated UI tests using tools such as Jest, Mocha, Playwright, Detox, Appium, or Maestro
- Monitoring and Observability: Familiarity with analytics and observability tools like ConfigCat, Segment, Heap, Datadog RUM, and Crashlytics to monitor user behaviour and app performance
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills - capable of articulating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Project Experience: Experience leading complex mobile development projects from concept to delivery
Desirable
- Experience with eventual consistency and distributed client models
- Experience with asynchronous programming patterns
- Experience integrating with event subscription patterns
- A keen interest in visual and interaction design for mobile platforms
- A keen interest in API design
What the job involves
- As a Staff Mobile Developer (Staff Software Developer) you will be supporting Lightspeed's Hospitality product group on the mission to help restaurant owners to provide the best experience to their customers through a fast, flexible, mobile companion app for restaurant managers and staff that supports them in running their business
- Delivering features and improvements and making a positive impact to thousands of restaurant managers and staff
- Implementing proof of concept, prototypes and fully-tested production-grade software
- Design and lead technical initiatives and provide technical leadership to keep our apps up-to-date on the latest technologies and following the best practices in mobile development
- Mentor other developers inside the team and participate in daily standups, grooming sessions, feature kick-offs and retrospective ceremonies
- Work closely with the Design team to keep a focus on User Experience (UX) and assist QA, Support and other teams in troubleshooting and remediating issues
- Translating requirements into detailed plans and level of effort guidance
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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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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