Team Lead, Software Development

4 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Lightspeed Full time

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

We're looking for a talented Software Development Team Lead to help us lead, mentor, and coach a high-performing software development team while fostering an inclusive environment that inspires them to do the best work of their career to date.

As a leader at Lightspeed, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Lightspeed. You also lead the team's delivery, enabling productive and sustainable ways of working while focusing on the most important things that bring long-term business value.

As a leader of strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software development are a must so that you can challenge and grow your team members. You will also be able to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.

If you’re motivated by tackling technical challenges, delivering impactful solutions, and pursuing excellence within our distributed workforce, we’d love to hear from you

Your Mission:

Under your guidance, the team will take on the critical mission of supporting and enhancing our Restaurant Point-of-Sale product, helping businesses worldwide streamline their operations. You foster and strengthen a healthy, highly collaborative, and continuously learning culture across the teams.

What you’ll be responsible for:

Be the trusted lead and partner of a development team of 5-6 members, guiding, motivating, and developing your team to solve complex business problems. Enhance team growth through effective mentoring, coaching, and constructive feedback, while fostering a mutually supportive, inclusive, and collaborative environment. You model lead-by-example excellence, provide high-quality code reviews and design feedback, and work to drive technical alignment in challenging areas. Lead the way to develop performant, scalable, and maintainable applications and microservices, ensuring high technical quality and operational excellence in your area. Collaborate closely with other teams, architects, product managers, and engineering leaders to align approaches and priorities. Continuously improve our software delivery processes and practices, staying updated with industry trends to influence our strategic direction and foster innovation. Provide technical and process guidance to your team, and participate in recruiting top talent for the organization.

What you’ll be bringing to the team

Proven experience leading a team of developers through successful software projects Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to convey technical information to a wide variety of audiences. Solid understanding of development processes, testing, and CI/CD best practices. Experience delivering horizontally scalable applications and microservices. Passion for learning new things and desire to improve continuously. Solution-oriented and constructive mindset and ability to manage ambiguity. If you have a Frontend Development background: Advanced skills in Typescript, React Full-stack web development familiarity is a strong plus. If you have a Backend Development background: Advanced skills in Java: Spring Framework or Advanced skills in Python: FastAPI, Flask Frameworks

Even better if you have hands-on experience with (but not necessary):

Interest in or experience with POS or eCommerce systems Experience building scalable SaaS solutions Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent

Who you are:

You are a problem solver who does not shy away from tackling complexity and critical thinking. You have a strong will to learn, grow, and leave your comfort zone. You have great energy and passion for technology.

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 let’s have a chat

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) 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

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