Principal Software Developer

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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!

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.

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

Even better if you have, but not necessary

Who you are

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 :

…. And enjoy a range of benefits that will keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry.

At Lightspeed, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your skill set, qualifications, experience, and market data. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We reasonably expect the total compensation for this position to be in the range of  $210,000 - $235,000 CAD . Lightspeed also provides a variety of employee benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance, RRSP plan and match, paid parental leave top-up, and paid time off.Please note that this compensation information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within Ontario and reflects the amount Lightspeed is willing to pay at the time of this posting. This role represents an  existing vacancy  at Lightspeed. Lightspeed uses artificial intelligence–enabled tools to support certain aspects of the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by our recruiting and hiring teams.