Principal Software Developer

About Lightspeedhq

Lightspeed is a leading provider of cloud-based point of sale solutions for retailers and restaurants.

Job Summary

As a hands-on Principal Software Developer, you’ll guide design and architecture of the critical system components of the flagship Lightspeed Retail product used by thousands of merchants around the world.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring that systems built to support new initiatives are well designed and scalable.
• Analyzing existing systems and infrastructure landscape, identifying opportunities to improve architecture, reduce duplication, make systems more performant and robust.
• Identifying key recurring patterns leading to incidents and non-project overhead, and coming up with a plan to address those.
• Driving improvements in our systems reliability and performance.
• Improving development practices, from design reviews, to testing and deployment, and to incident management.
• Conducting architectural deep-dives and mentoring key members across all services teams.
• Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organizational objectives.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional experience in software development.
• 5+ years of experience as a technical leader for multiple teams.
• 2+ years of experience in managing architecture across multiple teams with more than 35+ engineers.
• History of developing business critical systems at scale, to run on the cloud.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to moderate technical conversations and make quick decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in distributed systems and building multi-region systems for the cloud.
• Deep expertise in domain-driven software development.
• Retail or Ecommerce domain experience.

Benefits & Perks

• Opportunity to work with a talented team.
• Flexible working hours.
• Continuous learning and development opportunities.