Senior Software Developer (Java, NodeJS or Golang)

About Lightspeed

Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce 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.

Position

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

We are on the lookout for talented Senior Software Developers to join our high-performing team. We work to deliver new features and functionality in order to stay ahead of the game; delivering our customers exactly what they’re after (before they even know they need it).

We're growing and disrupting quickly as a company, and as part of that growth we have some unique and interesting challenges to solve, both from a technical and business opportunity standpoint. We work with big data and mission critical high concurrency as our customers are always connected and their livelihoods depend on us being online 24 / 7. So we need to ensure the solutions we build are scalable, stable, testable and easily maintainable.

Our Team

• We work in small focused agile product squads where every member of the team can contribute ideas and shape features from the early conception right through to delivery. We’re continually developing and improving our tools and processes in order to deliver better product as well as team quality and productivity
• You'll work alongside other brilliant developers to craft robust systems and beautiful interfaces. You'll write clear, performant, testable and elegant code and be a strong advocate for modern development practices. Collaborate with others in technical discussions, code reviews and architecture reviews

What you’ll be doing 

You'll have the opportunity to work on different areas of multiple products depending on your skillset and preference. We have a game changing roadmap of current and new products and projects in the pipeline with many exciting development opportunities such as

• Maintaining and improving the existing application as well as implementing new features and integrations using Java
• Building new microservices using NodeJs and Typescript while leveraging AWS suite of services
• Creating microfrontends using React or potentially newer frontend frameworks such as Svelte
• Work with big data on reporting for our customers while utilising Machine Learning
• Native application development using React Native
• API development and integrations with the Lightspeed platform

Your qualification

• Senior level of experience as a Software Developer including both successes and failures (“scars”), which help you make better decisions
• Deep knowledge in at least one of the following: NodeJs, Java or GoLang
• Experience with either React, Vue, Angular or other javascript frontend framework
• Experience with design patterns such as OOD, MVC and SOLID principles
• Ability to mentor and train other Engineers in the team

What we offer

Come live the Lightspeed experience...

• Ability to do your job in a truly flexible environment
• Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs everyday
• Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact 

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

• Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners)
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Flexible working policy
• Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year
• Mental health online platform and counselling & coaching services
• Paid leave and assistance for new parents
• LinkedIn Learning license
• Dog-friendly environment
• Full self-service cafe and fully stocked fridge of different craft beers
• Awesome office space located in Chippendale, NSW

Our office is closed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and when we do choose to reopen, it will be done following government guidelines ensuring the safety of all our staff.