Senior Full Stack Software Developer- (Go & react)

Lightspeed; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company specializing in retail solutions is looking for a Senior Software Developer in Montreal to help build software solutions that support merchants in growing their businesses. The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams and a strong background in backend and full-stack development, primarily using Go, React, and Node.js. The company promotes a flexible work culture and offers numerous benefits including equity schemes and unlimited paid time off.

Benefits

Lightspeed equity scheme

Unlimited paid time off

Health insurance

Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year

Paid leave and assistance for new parents

Mental health online platform

Volunteer day

Qualifications

• Experience developing, shipping and monitoring SaaS-based software in the public cloud (AWS or similar).
• Strong sense of ownership for your features throughout the SDLC.
• Eagerness to improve existing features and systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with cross-functional team to deliver product features.
• Developing clean, maintainable services and code for product functionality.
• Lead the ongoing maintenance and support of an existing microservice.

Skills

Backend/full-stack web development

Solid understanding of software engineering principles

Comfortable leading technical design discussions

Fluency in English

Tools

Go

React

Node.js

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by 👋

Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!

We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our Retail POS team in North America. Within the team, you'll build software solutions that help merchants grow the size and the profitability of their business. You'll join a product development team that believes in continuously delivering value, while following software engineering best practices and building robust, scalable solutions for our customers.

At Lightspeed, we are dedicated to bringing cities and communities to life by empowering small and medium businesses. Come help us build our communities!

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborating with product managers, developers, designers, and other stakeholders as part of a cross-functional team to deliver product features and functionality
• Developing clean, well designed, highly maintainable services and code to create or extend functionality of our products
• Drafting, discussing & implementing technical designs that solve business problems for our customers
• Lead the ongoing maintenance and support of an existing microservice
• Extending your own skills by learning from and growing with the team
• Be part of defining the product evolution as Lightspeed evolves its offerings to merchants & consumers globally
• Helping us all celebrate our achievements and have fun together along the way!

What you’ll be bringing to the team:

• You should have a solid understanding of software engineering principles and best practices, and be prepared to help your team use those principles in practice.
• Backend/full-stack web development - preferably in Go, React and Node.js.
• Experience developing, shipping and monitoring SaaS-based software in the public cloud (AWS or similar).
• Comfortable leading technical design discussions.
• Able to help make technical decisions, organise & mentor teammates to achieve common goals and to help estimate delivery effectively.
• A strong sense of ownership for your features throughout the SDLC and beyond.
• Ability to analyse production environments, incidents and performance characteristics
• Eagerness to improve existing features & systems and plan new ones.
• As a global company with employees and clients outside of Quebec, fluency in English as a working language is required for this position.

Even better if you have hands-on experience with:

• Continuous integration and deployment of SaaS applications
• Building microservices and with monolith decomposition
• Writing automated unit and integration tests
• AWS as well as Docker & Kubernetes
• Real time messaging systems (Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ) to drive asynchronous event-driven architecture
• Relational (SQL) and/or NoSQL databases
• Interest or experience in API-first design (REST, GraphQL)
• Instrumentation and metrics
• Technical leadership

What’s in it for you?

Come live the Lightspeed experience...

• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture and the option of fully remote work
• Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs everyday
• Opportunity to make a difference; help merchants grow their businesses and become more successful by creating or improving products and addressing customer feedback
• Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact
• Development of very high traffic products, used at the global scale
• Opportunities to learn and expand your skill set
• Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family

… and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry:

• Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Health insurance
• Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year
• Paid leave and assistance for new parents
• Mental health online platform and counselling & coaching services
• Volunteer day

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To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed tocreating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes andencourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations areavailable on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of theselection process.

Where to from here?

Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

Who we are:

Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stopcommerceplatform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer. Our cloudcommerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.

Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.

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