Golang Job: Staff Software Developer

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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 Staff Software Developer to join our Lightspeed Loyalty Team in North America. With Lightspeed Loyalty, you'll build software solutions that help merchants grow the size and the profitability of their business. You'll join a product development team that believes in continuously delivering value, while following software engineering best practices and building robust, scalable solutions for our customers.

For this role, you should be located in Canada, and able to work within EST/EDT hours. We offer a choice of fully remote, partially remote or fully office-based work environments (in cities with local offices).

At Lightspeed, we are dedicated to bringing cities and communities to life by empowering small and medium businesses. Come help us build our communities!

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborating with product managers, developers and other stakeholders as part of a cross-functional team to deliver product features and functionality for merchants
• Developing clean, well designed, highly maintainable services and code to create or extend functionality of our products
• Drafting, discussing & implementing technical designs that solve business problems for our customers
• Extending your own skills by learning from and growing with the team
• Be part of defining the product evolution as Lightspeed evolves it's offerings to merchants & consumers globally
• Helping us all celebrate our achievements and have fun together along the way!

What you need to bring

We're looking for a Staff Software Developer who has experience with the following:

• You should have a solid understanding of software engineering principles and best practices, and be prepared to help your team use those principles in practice
• Experience developing, shipping and monitoring SaaS-based software in the public cloud (AWS or similar)
• Comfortable leading technical design discussions. Able to help make technical decisions, organise & mentor teammates to achieve common goals and to help estimate delivery effectively
• A strong sense of ownership for your features throughout the SDLC and beyond
• Ability to analyse production environments, incidents and performance characteristics
• Eagerness to improve existing features & systems and plan new ones

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

• Go/Golang (or at least able & interested to learn it)
• Continuous integration and deployment of SaaS applications
• Building microservices
• Writing automated unit and integration tests
• Frontend/full-stack web development - preferably using React
• AWS as well as Docker & Kubernetes
• Real time messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ) to drive asynchronous event-driven architecture
• Relational (SQL) and/or NoSQL databases
• Interest or experience in API-first design (REST)
• Instrumentation and metrics for production service observability
• Technical leadership

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!

• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture and possibility of fully remote work
• Genuine career opportunities in a company that's creating new jobs everyday;
• 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
• Exposure to modern and proven technology
• Opportunity to learn and expand your skill set
• Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family

• Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners)
• Unlimited 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
• LinkedIn Learning License