Senior Fullstack Developer (Golang and React.js)

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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!

As a Senior Software Developer you will be supporting Lightspeed's Retail product group on the mission to expand our reach into new markets and countries while enhancing our ecommerce solution.

You will join our global team of developers to use cutting edge technologies to help merchants to provide the best experience to their customers.

At Lightspeed, we are dedicated to bringing cities and communities to life by powering SMBs. Come and help us build our communities!

For this role, you should be located in Montreal.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Creating and extending functionality of our products by contributing to our microservice-based platform
• Developing clean and highly maintainable code
• Mentor and guide other developers, fostering a culture of learning, innovation, and improvement within your team.
• Extending our continuous integration / continuous deployment environment
• Working as part of a team to deliver product features and functionality
• Work with our Product Managers, Designer Managers and Principal developers
• Maintain high standards for code quality, design patterns, and best practices within the team.

What you’ll be bringing to the team

• Strong foundation in computer science principles and practices.
• Advanced proficiency in Golang for backend development.
• Extensive experience in TypeScript and JavaScript, with a focus on the React framework.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Skilled in diagnosing and resolving production issues, incidents, and performance bottlenecks.
• Familiarity with real-time messaging technologies, including Pub / Sub and Kafka.
• Competent in both relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) database systems.
• Experienced in Agile methodologies, with a proven ability to work effectively within a collaborative, iterative development environment.

Who you are

• You are a leader and mentor who thrives in a team environment, bringing a positive influence and helping guide others while also learning and growing yourself.
• You are self-motivated with the ability to function effectively in a team environment with minimum supervision.
• You are always seeking improvement and progress.
• You are eager to make decisions and not afraid of making mistakes.

What’s in it for you?

Come live the Lightspeed experience

• Ability to do your job in a truly flexible environment
• Exposure to modern and proven technology
• Development of very high traffic products, used at the global scale
• Opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-growth company
• Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles
• Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact.

and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy and healthy and (not) hungry :

• Lightspeed RSU program (we are all owners)
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Flexible working policy
• Health insurance
• People Experience - Our PX benefit allows you to work from pretty much anywhere in the world for 60 days a year
• Health and wellness benefits
• A variety of snacks, coffee, and teas are always accessible and available in the office kitchen - Tuesday's, Wednesday's and Thursday's lunch is served.
• Paid leave assistance for new parents
• Linkedin learning
• Volunteer day

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