Remote Software Development Manager — FinTech Growth Leader

Lightspeed Commerce; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 170,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for Lightspeeders

Remote work options

Job summary

Lightspeed Financial Services is seeking a Software Development Manager in North America to grow and lead a high-performing software development team, delivering mission-critical Financial Services products. You will mentor developers, collaborate with Product teams, and guide delivery in a distributed agile environment.

Location options include fully remote, partially remote, or fully office-based work environments in cities with local offices.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team of developers through successful delivery of software products.
• Experience delivering microservice-driven, scalable, cloud-based applications.
• Strong working knowledge of Java or TypeScript or Ruby or Python.
• Professional experience in agile development and continuous delivery best practices.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Ability to coach, mentor and drive individuals and teams.

Responsibilities

• Guiding, motivating and growing a team of software developers as they solve complex problems in the Financial Services domain.
• Directly and indirectly managing a team through collaboration with, and mentorship of a Technical Lead Staff Engineer.
• Working closely with architects, Product teams, engineering leadership and stakeholders to align on team priorities and roadmaps.
• Identifying, communicating and removing impediments and risks to delivery, within the team and across Financial Services as a whole.
• Planning and furthering the professional growth of individual team members, including 1-1s, performance reviews, ongoing feedback, goal-setting and promotions.
• Reporting up to engineering leadership and stakeholders on team progress and status.
• Finding and hiring top talent for your team and the wider organization.
• Providing technical and process guidance to the team during delivery.

Skills

Team leadership

Microservices

Cloud-based apps

Java

TypeScript

Ruby

Python

Agile

English communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Lightspeed Financial Services is seeking a Software Development Manager in North America to grow and lead a high-performing software development team, delivering mission-critical Financial Services products. You will mentor developers, collaborate with Product teams, and guide delivery in a distributed agile environment.

Location options include fully remote, partially remote, or fully office-based work environments in cities with local offices.