Senior Python Developer, Lightspeed
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
Point of Sale & commerce platform
Posted today
Point of Sale & commerce platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
+ Equity
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
- 5+ years of experience in software development with a strong focus on Python
- Strong English communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively within a team
- Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and microservices
- Strong understanding of scalability, performance optimization, and distributed systems
- Experience with databases such as MySQL or DynamoDB
- Knowledge of monitoring applications for performance and reliability
- Hands-on experience with Kafka
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- 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
- Experience working with recommendation systems, machine learning models, or data-driven applications
- Experience in Agile development environments
- Experience/ interest in Javascript and or Java Spring, basic knowledge of React
- Peer recognised experience in Technical Problem Solving in general
- 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
- Lightspeed is looking for a Senior Python Developer to join our team
- As a Backend developer, you will support Lightspeed's Hospitality product group on the 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 Lighthouse Squad. This team is responsible for building a horizontal product - a subscription management service for our hospitality customers enabling them to unlock various ecosystem software products we have to offer
- This is a highly resilient distributed system that spans across software delivery and billing for subscriptions
- Above all, your work will change the way the world experiences hospitality!
- Building and maintaining our software components using primarily python ecosystem
- Backend services and APIs with fastAPI, Kafka, Redis, AWS ecosystem
- Event driven architecture, with focus on resilience and accuracy
- Strong QA foundations with unit and integration tests
- Reliability, performance and accuracy aspects
- Bugfixes and proactive care of the systems
- We analyse the root causes of problems & incidents in the system
- We are able to prioritize technical debts aligning with our squad’s technical roadmaps
- Collaborating with other teams to help them integrate with our microservices
- Use LLMs to accelerate development process safely and robustly
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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