Senior Software Engineer - Retail
Job Description
What you will be responsible for:
o Building: Code, conduct code reviews, fix bugs (including tackling complex debugging), participate in peer programming, incident response, and reverse-engineering tasks.
o Planning/Architecture: Estimate, collaborate with product teams, and define the MVP.
o Learning & Teaching: Share knowledge through lunches, chapter reviews, research, meetups, and mentoring junior developers to help them grow.
o Enabling: Contribute to shared libraries, and open-source projects, define best practices, and document development standards within your teams focus.
What you’ll be bringing to the team:
o Strong programming skills in either/or Golang, Java, PHP, C#, C++, Ruby, Python, and Elixir.
o Experience with either React, Vue, Angular or other JavaScript Front-End framework.
o Solid Software Development experience with both successes and failures that shape better decision-making.
o Understand concepts like authentication, web security, models and databases, and the way that frontends consume APIs.
o Willingness to mentor and train other Engineers in the team.
Who you are:
o You have a passion for software development and a customer-focused mindset.
o You are a team player always working towards the overall team’s success.
o You understand the need for constant improvement, self-growth, and accountability.
o You step up to solve problems for the business;
o You set ambitious goals, and act with a sense of urgency and focus.
Software Development at Lightspeed retail:
o We build new features on top of a modern stack, consisting of web apps (in a mix of Angular & React) communicating through GraphQL and REST APIs to Go services, backed by databases and Kafka topics, all deployed using Docker in a continuous delivery cycle to AWS.
o You don’t need to have experience in any of our specific technologies: we’re great at teaching good Developers how to use our modern SaaS stack.
o We dont follow rigid Scrum or Kanban, but we do work in an agile, iterative way, and try to continuously improve and implement what works for us.
o We value letting our merchants experience what were building as soon as possible - So we deploy a change to production on average every 7 minutes.
o Open culture and a continuous improvement mindset.
Whats in it for you?
o Join a fast-paced, high-growth company.
o Work on high-traffic products used at a global scale providing critical services for our
o merchants.
o Surround yourself with strong talent and enjoy continuous professional growth.
o Develop in a modern and proven technology stack.
o Great benefits and perks, including equity and flexible/hybrid remote work options, in a
o diverse and inclusive environment.
o Opportunities to learn and expand your skill set.
o Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed organization.
... and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry:
o Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)
o Flexible paid time off policy
o Health Insurance
o Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year
o Paid leave and assistance for new parents
o Mental health online platform and counselling & coaching services
o Volunteer day
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