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Lightspeed is looking for talented and experienced Principal Engineer to join their growing Services organization. Lightspeed Services is building out a common set of services that span multiple products. This includes Financial Services (Payments and Capital) - the Fintech backbone of Lightspeed, Accounts Services, and Golf product.
For this role, you should be located in Canada/USA, and able to work within EST/EDT hours. We offer a choice of fully remote, partially remote or fully office-based work environments (in cities with local offices).
As a hands-on Principal Engineer, you’ll guide design and architecture of the critical system components across the Services org, and personally contribute to the key parts of the systems to deliver innovative solutions that meet customer needs. You will uplevel engineering craft across the organization, by providing technical guidance, promoting best practices, mentoring fellow engineers, while empowering the teams to build towards a sustainable architecture.
What you'll be responsible for
- 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
- You conduct architectural deep-dives and mentor key members across all services teams.
- As a senior member of the engineering team, you will also play a key in developing a high-performance culture in the Services organization.
- Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organizational objectives even if this means doing things that aren’t strictly within the scope of your role.
What you’ll be bringing to the team
- 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.
- History of delivering key outcomes for the business, under challenging timelines.
- Experience in more than one technology stack such as Java, RoR, Python, .NET, etc.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey ideas concisely.
- Ability to moderate technical conversations, handle diverse opinions, and make quick decisions.
Even better if you have, but not necessary
- Expertise in distributed systems and building multi-region systems for the cloud
- Deep expertise in domain-driven software development
- Ability to lead and guide a team of engineers while contributing alongside them
- Payments or Financial Systems experience
- Experience with people management responsibilities
Who you are
- You have a passion for software development and a customer-focused mindset
- You are a team player who can work with, and help grow, other developers
- You understand the need for constant improvement, self-growth, and accountability
- You step up to lead features, solve problems, and research new technologies
- You set ambitious goals, and act with a sense of urgency and focus
What's in it for you?
- Join a fast-paced, high-growth company
- Work on systems that handle billions of dollars in transactions for our merchants globally
- Surround yourself with strong talent and enjoy continuous professional growth
- Develop in a modern and proven technology stack
- Great benefits and perks, including equity and flexible/hybrid remote work options, in a diverse and inclusive environment
- 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)
- Flexible 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 counseling & coaching services
- Volunteer day
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 to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection 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-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.
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Lightspeed Commerce Montréal, Québec, CAN Office
700 Rue Saint-Antoine E, Montréal, QC, Canada, H2Y 1A6
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