Senior Platform Software Developer, Lightspeed
Java
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
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
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Outstanding Java knowledge with 5+ years of production usage experience
- Expert knowledge of the Spring framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security)
- Experience with both relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases
- Knowledge of monitoring applications for performance and reliability
- Experience with real-time messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.)
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented programming and design patterns
- Experience with building robust and complete RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with API documentation and standards such as OpenAPI
- Commitment to clean code, maintainability, and systematic correctness
- 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 are eager to make decisions and not afraid of making mistakes
Desirable
- One additional backend language (Python, Go)
- Experience writing automated unit and functional tests
- Experience in Agile development environments
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (HTTP, TCP, TLS, etc.)
- Proficiency with CI/CD systems, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Experience with cloud environments like AWS or GCP
- Computer Science degree or equivalent
What the job involves
- As a Backend developer, you will support Lightspeed's Hospitality product group in our mission to expand our reach into new markets and countries while enhancing our advanced hospitality commerce platform
- For this role specifically, you will join our Platform Squad
- This team is dedicated to empowering our squads with common services and libraries that handle cross-cutting concerns in robust and scalable ways
- Developing and optimizing central services. You’ll focus on services that are at the core of our K-Series platform
- Tackle complex authentication and authorization scenarios
- Identifying ways to extract cross cutting concerns from a complex micro service landscape
- Performance Monitoring: Analyze system performance and implement monitoring solutions to ensure optimal operation and quick resolution of issues
- Build robust and complete RESTful APIs, ensuring they are well-documented and adhere to standards such as OpenAPI
- Clean Code and Documentation: Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code to support the scalability and reliability of our platform
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Product Managers, and Feature Teams to achieve project objectives and enhance development practices
- Continuous Learning and Growth: Extend your skills by learning from and growing with the team, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
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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