Senior Software Engineer - Retail
Location: Providence
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
We’re looking for both Intermediate and Senior Developers (Full
Stack, Back End and Front End) to join our Lightspeed Retail Team
in the US and Canada. With Lightspeed Retail, youll build software
solutions that provide merchants with all of the tools that they
need to thrive in the market. You will have the opportunity to work
on different areas of multiple products depending on your skill set
and preference. You will own and be accountable for features and
high-leverage coding projects. What you will be responsible for: o
Building: Code, conduct code reviews, fix bugs (including tackling
complex debugging), participate in peer programming, incident
response, and reverse-engineering tasks. o Planning/Architecture:
Estimate, collaborate with product teams, and define the MVP. o
Learning & Teaching: Share knowledge through lunches, chapter
reviews, research, meetups, and mentoring junior developers to help
them grow. o Enabling: Contribute to shared libraries, and
open-source projects, define best practices, and document
development standards within your teams focus. What you’ll be
bringing to the team: o Strong programming skills in either/or
Golang, Java, PHP, C#, C++, Ruby, Python, and Elixir. o Experience
with either React, Vue, Angular or other JavaScript Front-End
framework. o Solid Software Development experience with both
successes and failures that shape better decision-making. o
Understand concepts like authentication, web security, models and
databases, and the way that frontends consume APIs. o Willingness
to mentor and train other Engineers in the team. Who you are: o You
have a passion for software development and a customer-focused
mindset. o You are a team player always working towards the overall
team’s success. o You understand the need for constant improvement,
self-growth, and accountability. o You step up to solve problems
for the business; o You set ambitious goals, and act with a sense
of urgency and focus. Software Development at Lightspeed retail: o
We build new features on top of a modern stack, consisting of web
apps (in a mix of Angular & React) communicating through GraphQL
and REST APIs to Go services, backed by databases and Kafka topics,
all deployed using Docker in a continuous delivery cycle to AWS. o
You don’t need to have experience in any of our specific
technologies: we’re great at teaching good Developers how to use
our modern SaaS stack. o We dont follow rigid Scrum or Kanban, but
we do work in an agile, iterative way, and try to continuously
improve and implement what works for us. o We value letting our
merchants experience what were building as soon as possible - So we
deploy a change to production on average every 7 minutes. o Open
culture and a continuous improvement mindset. Whats in it for you?
o Join a fast-paced, high-growth company. o Work on high-traffic
products used at a global scale providing critical services for our
o merchants. o Surround yourself with strong talent and enjoy
continuous professional growth. o Develop in a modern and proven
technology stack. o Great benefits and perks, including equity and
flexible/hybrid remote work options, in a o diverse and inclusive
environment. o Opportunities to learn and expand your skill set. o
Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed
organization. and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy,
healthy and (not) hungry: o Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all
owners) o Flexible paid time off policy o Health Insurance o Health
and wellness benefit of $500 per year o Paid leave and assistance
for new parents o Mental health online platform and counselling &
coaching services o Volunteer day
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