Senior Full Stack Software Developer- (Go & react Job Ottawa area,Ontario Canada,Software Development

Position: Senior Full Stack Software Developer- (Go & react)

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

We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our Retail POS team in North America. Within the team, you'll build software solutions that help merchants grow the size and the profitability of their business. You'll join a product development team that believes in continuously delivering value, while following software engineering best practices and building robust, scalable solutions for our customers.

At Lightspeed, we are dedicated to bringing cities and communities to life by empowering small and medium businesses. Come help us build our communities!

What you’ll be doing:

Collaborating with product managers, developers, designers, and other stakeholders as part of a cross-functional team to deliver product features and functionality

Developing clean, well designed, highly maintainable services and code to create or extend functionality of our products

Drafting, discussing & implementing technical designs that solve business problems for our customers

Lead the ongoing maintenance and support of an existing microservice

Extending your own skills by learning from and growing with the team

Be part of defining the product evolution as Lightspeed evolves its offerings to merchants & consumers globally

Helping us all celebrate our achievements and have fun together along the way!

What you’ll be bringing to the team:

You should have a solid understanding of software engineering principles and best practices, and be prepared to help your team use those principles in practice.

Backend/full-stack web development - preferably in Go, React and Node.js.

Experience developing, shipping and monitoring SaaS-based software in the public cloud (AWS or similar).

Comfortable leading technical design discussions.

Able to help make technical decisions, organise & mentor teammates to achieve common goals and to help estimate delivery effectively.

A strong sense of ownership for your features throughout the SDLC and beyond.

Ability to analyse production environments, incidents and performance characteristics

Eagerness to improve existing features & systems and plan new ones.

As a global company with employees and clients outside of Quebec, fluency in English as a working language is required for this position.

Even better if you have hands-on experience with:

Continuous integration and deployment of SaaS applications

Building microservices and with monolith decomposition

Writing automated unit and integration tests

AWS as well as Docker & Kubernetes

Real time messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Rabbit

MQ) to drive asynchronous event-driven architecture

Relational (SQL) and/or No

SQL databases

Interest or experience in API-first design (REST, Graph

QL)

Instrumentation and metrics

Technical leadership

What’s in it for you?

Come live the Lightspeed experience...

Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture and the option of fully remote work

Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs everyday

Opportunity to make a difference; help merchants grow their businesses and become more successful by creating or improving products and addressing customer feedback

Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact

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)

Unlimited 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 counselling & coaching services

Volunteer day

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