Principal Software Developer Job Toronto area,Ontario Canada,Software Development

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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. 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, while empowering the 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 (incities with local offices).

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 Retail 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 Go, PHP, Java, RoR, Python, 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

Retail or Ecommerce domain 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

We know that people are more than what’s on their CV. If you’re unsure that you have the right profile for the role... hit the ‘Apply’ button and give it a try!

What’s in it for you:

Join a growing team and help us move to the next level

Amazing benefits & perks, including equity for all Lightspeeders

Constant development of both your skill-set and business acumen with limitless growth opportunities

Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture

Innovation time to explore and learn at work

Shaping the company by joining cultural & technical committees

Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles

Opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-growth company

Opportunity to learn, expand your skill set, forge wonderful relationships and make your mark within the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family, a true Canadian tech success story

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