Senior Staff Software Engineer

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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!

We’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our team in Auckland. In addition to building reliable systems and easy-to-use interfaces with clean, well-tested code, you will also collaborate closely with peers in technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture decisions, helping to elevate our engineering culture and set a high bar for quality and scalability.

To thrive in this role, you’ll bring strong technical knowledge, a quick ability to learn new technologies, and sharp problem-solving skills. You’ll be an excellent communicator who works well with stakeholders, collaborates effectively across teams, and supports others through mentorship.

What you’ll be doing:

• 30% - Building stuff: This means coding, code reviews, fixing bugs (i.e. tackling the hard debugging), peer programming, incident response, and reverse-engineering tasks, etc.
• 30% - Planning/architecture: This means estimating, collaborating with products, establishing MVP
• 30% - Learning and teaching: This means things like chapter reviews, research and meetups, coaching and mentoring developers to “level up” and become more proficient over time
• 10% - Enabling: This means things like working on shared libraries, contributing to open source content, defining, documenting and evolving best practices for development in their team’s area of focus 

And a little bit of… 

• Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organisational-wide objectives even if this means doing things that aren’t strictly within the scope of your role.

What you need to bring:

We're looking for a candidate who has experience with the following:

• Principal, Staff or tech lead level of experience as a Software Engineer, in fullstack, frontend or backend capacity, including both successes and failures (“scars”), which help you make better decisions
• Deep understanding of modern web application development, tools and techniques
• Experience in working on major systems in one or more languages: You have extensive practical experience in either frontend or backend development. If focused on frontend, you’ve worked with modern frameworks to build user interfaces that consume APIs. If focused on the backend, you’ve designed and built RESTful APIs, integrated with data storage layers. Regardless of specialisation, you understand core web concepts like HTTP, security principles, and how frontend and backend systems interact in a full-stack architecture
• You’ll have had experience of delivering architectural change in one or more large complex systems

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!

Be a changemaker

You’ll enjoy:

• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture with the option of working remotely or from one of our beautiful offices
• Genuine career growth opportunities within a company that's continuously expanding
• Make a meaningful impact by helping merchants grow their businesses through creating or improving products and addressing customer feedback
• Be part of a team large enough for growth yet agile enough for real impact
• Work on high-traffic products with a global user base
• Opportunity to work alongside other highly skilled engineers, learn and expand your skill set, forge wonderful relationships and make your mark within the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed culture, a true Canadian tech success story

Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled.

• Lightspeed