About the role
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The Invoicing team is part of the Financial Services group at Lightspeed. We are responsible for designing and delivering solutions that support sales and pre-sales flows, as well as managing customer accounts receivable operations. Our team plays a key role in enabling seamless financial processes that drive business growth and ensure a reliable experience for our customers.
As a Senior Software Developer In this role, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of various features within our mission-critical financial products. You will make valuable contributions to the overall codebase for new features or resolving bugs, help improve the architecture, and other related activities. You are expected to bring strong technical expertise, help the team accomplish their goals, help evolve the team’s process and tooling, and take an active role in various production operations, including on-call rotations.
Note: We are only accepting applications from candidates across Canada.
What you'll be responsible for:
- Drive strategic collaboration in development planning, retrospectives, and demos;
- Lead the system design and architecture for new, large-scale features, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and maintainable;
- Break down high-level requirements into well-defined development tasks and work items;
- Manage and communicate expectations, priorities, release status, and project schedules to stakeholders and the team;
- Lead effort estimation for sprint and product roadmap deliverables;
- Champion continuous improvement of our software delivery processes and practices;
- Actively mentor and coach team members, identifying areas for growth and career development;
- Shape the future of the engineering workforce by actively participating in the recruitment process;
- Provide technical and process guidance;
- Elevate coding standards and best practices by conducting rigorous code reviews in a knowledge-sharing environment;
- Continuously improve our existing tools and products to ensure technological advantage.
- As a global company with employees and clients outside of Quebec, fluency in English as a working language is required for this position.
What you’ll be bringing to the team:
- Strong software engineering and computer science fundamentals like data structures and algorithms.
- A minimum of 6 years of experience working as a Software Developer
- Experience working for a Saas product based company.
- Proven, extensive expertise in designing and architecting complex, event-driven distributed systems, with significant experience in microservices and reliable data pipelines, preferably within the Financial Services domain.
- Experience in JavaScript, Golang, TypeScript or similar languages.
- Experience building and maintaining customer facing UIs using React, Angular or other JavaScript frameworks.
- Understanding of containerized application development and management using Kubernetes, Docker or similar tools.
- Experience with data management and storage technologies such as Redis, Google Cloud Datastore, Elasticsearch or similar tools.
- Experience with AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and/or equivalent technologies.
- Proven experience developing scalable, reliable applications on the cloud (AWS/GCP);
- Experience designing and setting up advanced monitoring systems and championing the overall observability culture;
- Experience leading initiatives and feature work from system design to production deployment;
- Strong sense of ownership and self-improvement, with a growth mindset.
About You:
- You have a passion for software development and a customer-focused mindset.
- You are a team player always working towards the overall team’s success.
- You understand the need for constant improvement, sel
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Aplyr's read
Lightspeed Commerce empowers retailers with cloud-based tools for seamless sales and inventory management, attracting tech-savvy professionals passionate about retail innovation.
What's promising
- •Lightspeed Commerce offers a comprehensive platform integrating POS, e-commerce, and inventory management for retailers.
- •The company has a strong focus on innovation, hiring roles like AI Marketing Technologist and Analytics Engineer.
- •Recent expansions in European markets highlight Lightspeed's commitment to global growth.
What to watch
- •The competitive landscape in retail technology poses challenges for differentiation and market share.
- •Frequent executive roles suggest potential instability or restructuring at senior levels.
- •Limited public information about employee satisfaction and company culture.
Why Lightspeed Commerce
- •Lightspeed's platform uniquely integrates multiple retail functions into a single cloud-based solution.
- •The company emphasizes multilingual support, hiring roles like Flemish and Dutch-speaking consultants.
- •Lightspeed's focus on both hospitality and retail sectors broadens its market reach.
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About Lightspeed Commerce
Lightspeed Commerce is a cloud-based commerce platform that provides businesses with tools for point of sale, e-commerce, and inventory management.
