Lead Engineer

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

We are looking for a Lead Engineer to inspire and guide one of our Engineering teams in Newmarket. You are expected to perform at a high level and lead the team in rapidly and efficiently building solutions to our retailers' problems, focussing on iteration, experimentation, and stability.

You need not be an expert in Golang or React but you must be willing to learn as you go, and you’ll have our full support on this journey.

Engineering @ Vend by Lightspeed:

• 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
• You don’t need to have experience in any of our specific technologies: we’re great at teaching good engineers how to use our modern SaaS stack
• We don't 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
• We value letting our merchants experience what we're building as soon as possible - So we deploy a change to production on average every 7 minutes
• Blameless culture and a continuous improvement mindset

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What you’ll be doing:

• People Leadership: You will be coaching, mentoring, guiding, and motivating a team of engineers from all backgrounds. This includes all aspects of people management including hiring and training team members, and using tools like great 1:1s, peer programming, whiteboarding or training sessions
• Technical Delivery: You’ll be helping your team deliver code in a high trust environment using continuous delivery, ensuring the team has a great delivery cadence and a strong connection with stakeholders (using demos, retros, blameless incident reviews, and the like). While you won’t be as hands-on with the code as your team are, you’ll still be writing code, helping with code reviews, and fixing bugs; as well as providing technical advice and documentation for systems/processes
• Planning and architecture: Evaluating the performance of the technical architecture of our infrastructure and adopting industry trends will also be required

Your qualification

• You have significant experience with success and failure (“scars”), which help you make better decisions
• Previous experience managing engineering teams, including coaching, mentoring, guiding, and motivating engineers
• Strong experience in working on major systems in one or more languages
• Effective at nurturing relationships and managing multiple stakeholders

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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
• Pluralsight & LinkedIn Learning license
• Secure, full-time carpark
• Dog-friendly environment
• Free fresh fruits, snacks and drinks (and cake for your birthday!)
• Awesome office space located in Newmarket (Auckland)

Additional details

Who we are and what we do:

Vend joined forces with Lightspeed in 2021 to become ‘Vend by Lightspeed’. We are a cloud-based commerce platform designed for busy retailers. We started our journey in New Zealand ten years ago and have grown from local startup to global success. By joining Lightspeed, we are able to make an even bigger impact, with greater resources, building new features faster and powering retailers everywhere.

At the heart of who we are is our people and customers. We power local retailers in over 100 countries and we have offices in Canada, USA, Europe and APAC. We dream big and we're looking for people who do the same.

Here in APAC you’ll have the ability to make a genuine impact, learn from the industry's best, and enjoy the perks of being part of a global growing tech company!