Principal Software Developer, Lightspeed

• 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
• You have a passion for software development and a customer-focused mindset
• You are a team player who can work with, and help grow, other developers
• You understand the need for constant improvement, self-growth, and accountability
• You step up to lead features, solve problems, and research new technologies
• You set ambitious goals, and act with a sense of urgency and focus

Desirable

• As a hands-on Principal Software Developer, you’ll guide design and architecture of the critical system components of the flagship Lightspeed Retail product used by thousands of merchants around the world.
• You will personally contribute to the key parts of the systems to deliver innovative solutions that meet customer needs.
• You will uplevel engineering craft across the organization, by providing technical guidance, promoting best practices, mentoring fellow engineers, while empowering the teams to build towards a sustainable architecture
• 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