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Thanks for stopping by\nAre you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might be in the right place!\nWe'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.\nAs 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.\nAs 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.\nIf you’re motivated by tackling technical challenges, delivering impactful solutions, and pursuing excellence within our distributed workforce, we’d love to hear from you!\nYour Mission\nUnder 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.\nWhat you’ll be responsible for\nBe the trusted lead and partner of a development team of 5-6 members, guiding, motivating, and developing your team to solve complex business problems.\n\nEnhance team growth through effective mentoring, coaching, and constructive feedback, while fostering a mutually supportive, inclusive, and collaborative environment.\n\nYou model hands-on, lead-by-example excellence-actively contributing to the codebase, providing high-quality code reviews and design feedback, and driving technical alignment in challenging areas.\n\nLead the way to develop performant, scalable, and maintainable applications and microservices, ensuring high technical quality and operational excellence in your area.\n\nCollaborate closely with other teams, architects, product managers, and engineering leaders to align approaches and priorities.\n\nContinuously improve our software delivery processes and practices, staying updated with industry trends to influence our strategic direction and foster innovation.\n\nProvide technical and process guidance to your team, and participate in recruiting top talent for the organization.\n\nWhat you’ll be bringing to the team\nProven experience leading a team of developers through successful software projects\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication with the ability to convey technical information to a wide variety of audiences.\n\nSolid understanding of development processes, testing, and CI/CD best practices.\n\nExperience delivering horizontally scalable applications and microservices.\n\nPassion for learning new things and desire to improve continuously.\n\nSolution-oriented and constructive mindset and ability to manage ambiguity.\n\nA backend development background with:\nAdvanced skills in Python (preferred) or Java.\n\nStrong experience designing and building scalable APIs (e.g., REST, GraphQL) and database architecture.\n\nEven better if you have hands-on experience with (but not necessary):\nInterest in or experience with POS or eCommerce systems\n\nExperience building scalable SaaS solutions\n\nExperience working with relational and NoSQL databases\n\nExperience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent\n\nWho you are:\nYou are a problem solver who does not shy away from tackling complexity and critical thinking.\n\nYou have a strong will to learn, grow, and leave your comfort zone.\n\nYou have great energy and passion for technology.\n\nWhat’s in it for you?\nCome live the Lightspeed experience!\nLots of autonomy, flexible work culture with the option of working remotely or from one of our beautiful offices\n\nGenuine career growth opportunities within a company that's continuously expanding.\n\nMake a meaningful impact by helping merchants grow their businesses through creating or improving products and addressing customer feedback.\n\nBe part of a team large enough for growth yet agile enough for real impact.\n\nWork on high-traffic products with a global user base.\n\nOpportunities to learn, develop new skills, and expand your expertise.\n\nTo all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.\nLightspeed 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.\nWhere to from here?\nObviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.\nLightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.\nWho we are:\nPowering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.\nFounded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). 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