Senior Software Developer, Lightspeed
Java
+ Lightspeed equity scheme
2-3 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
+ Lightspeed equity scheme
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
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent foundational knowledge of the Java programming language
- Good knowledge of the Java ecosystem:
- Spring, Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem
- Maven (or Gradle)
- Testing frameworks like Mockito, Junit, Spock, Testcontainers, Cucumber
- JPA, Hibernate or other ORM
- Other common libraries and tooling like Lombok, Liquibase, Mapstruct, etc
- Experience with relational/SQL (eg. MySQL) databases
- Experience writing automated unit and functional tests with one of the frameworks
- Solid foundation of knowledge in computer science
- Able to analyse and debug production problems, incidents and performance issues
- You are a team-player who likes to contribute to discussions and share your own experience
- 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
Desirable
- Experience in multiple Java ecosystem frameworks
- Experience scaling Microservice architectures and implementing advanced patterns of distributed and fault tolerant systems
- Experience with non-relational/NoSQL (eg. DynamoDB, Redis) databases
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Experience with cloud environments like AWS or GCP and their products
- Experience with Kafka or other real time messaging systems (eg. Pub/Sub)
- Computer Sciences degree or equivalent
- Experience with Docker & Kubernetes and running Java containers in the cloud
- Experience in building and maintaining a CI/CD pipeline
- Knowledge on Security topics (authentication and authorisation patterns, OAuth2, PKI, etc)
What the job involves
- Lightspeed is looking for talented and experienced Senior Java Developers
- As a Backend developer you will be supporting Lightspeed's Hospitality product group on the mission to expand our reach into new markets and countries while enhancing our advanced hospitality commerce platform
- You will work on a variety of projects that will have a tremendous impact on the daily life of thousands of customers all over the world and help bring local communities to life
- As a Senior Java developer you’ll be working closely together with our Product Managers, Designers, other Developers and our Support team in order to provide tailored and innovative solutions for the market
- Creating and extending functionality of our products
- Developing clean,highly maintainable and well tested code
- Develop and evolve our overall backend architecture
- Extending our continuous integration / continuous deployment environment
- Working as part of a team (squad) to deliver product features and functionality
- As part of a squad you get to work with our Product Managers, Architects and Principal developers
- Extending your very own skills by learning from and growing with the team
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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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
35% female employees
7% employee growth in 12 months
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.
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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