Software Developer, Software Engineer, Backend Developer

We’re looking for a Staff Software Developer to join our Retail team in Canada. You will 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, and empowering teams to build towards a sustainable architecture.

For this role you should be located in Canada and able to work within EST/EDT hours. We offer a choice of fully remote, partially remote or fully office‑based work environments.

You’ll have the opportunity to work on different areas of multiple products depending on your skill‑set and preference. You will own and be accountable for features and high‑leverage coding projects.

• Building stuff
  . This means coding, code reviews, fixing bugs (i.e. tackling hard debugging), peer programming, incident response, and reverse‑engineering tasks, etc.

• Planning/architecture
  . This means estimating, collaborating with products, establishing MVP.

• Learning and teaching
  . This means chapter reviews, research and meetups, coaching and mentoring developers to level up.

• Enabling
  . This means working on shared libraries, contributing to open source content, defining, documenting and evolving best practices for your team’s area of focus.

• Avoiding pitfalls
  . Identifying potential risks in delivering complex features and helping propose ways to avoid them.

• Contributing as part of the wider team
  . Achieve organisational objectives even if this means doing work beyond the scope of your role.

• Staff‑level experience
  . Extensive experience as a staff engineer, proven track record of handling large‑scale incidents and system failures, and emerging stronger architectures, runbooks, and institutional knowledge.

• Systems thinking
  . Deep proficiency in at least one relevant tech stack combined with a systems‑level mindset for complex full‑stack architectures.

• Modern tooling
  . Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted coding and deployment strategies to drive efficiency without sacrificing quality.

• Communication
  . Ability to simplify complex technical trade‑offs for stakeholders and peers, proactively identify and communicate risks, and hold a flexible yet firm point of view.

• Principled but pragmatic technical lead
  . You have strong opinions weakly held, ready to pivot when data shows a better path for the customer.

• Continuous force multiplier
  . You not only solve problems but build systems, tools, and people around you.

• Owner & advocate
  . You act with a sense of urgency and walk backwards from the customer, treating the codebase, business strategy, and stakeholders as your own.

• Boundary‑spanning problem solver
  . You naturally operate across squads, and the problems that excite you are those whose solutions become primitives, platforms, or patterns.

Be a change maker. You’ll enjoy:

• A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work.

• A culture that celebrates performance.

• The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, yet lean enough to make your voice heard.

• Career‑defining opportunities.

• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies.

• Equity options.

• Contributions to your pension plan.

• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career.

• Health and wellness credit.

• Time off to volunteer and give back to your community.

• Interest groups, employee‑led networks, social committees and sponsored sports teams.

• Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook.

• Enhanced parental leave to support growing families.

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.