Team Lead, Software Development, FE/BE/iOS (all genders)

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Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well you might be in the right place!

We're looking for a talented Software Development Team Lead to help us lead, mentor, and coach a high-performing software development team while fostering an inclusive environment that inspires them to do the best work of their career to date.

As a leader at Lightspeed, your primary responsibility is to the people you support : ensuring they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Lightspeed.

You also lead the team's delivery, enabling productive and sustainable ways of working while focusing on the most important things that bring long-term business value.

As a leader of strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software development are a must so that you can challenge and grow your team members.

You will also be able to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.

If you’re motivated by tackling technical challenges, delivering impactful solutions, and pursuing excellence within our distributed workforce, we’d love to hear from you!

Your Mission

Under your guidance, the team will take on the critical mission of supporting and enhancing our Restaurant Point-of-Sale product, helping businesses worldwide streamline their operations.

You foster and strengthen a healthy, highly collaborative, and continuously learning culture across the teams.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Be the trusted lead and partner of a development team of 5-6 members, guiding, motivating, and developing your team to solve complex business problems.
• Enhance team growth through effective mentoring, coaching, and constructive feedback, while fostering a mutually supportive, inclusive, and collaborative environment.
• You model lead-by-example excellence, provide high-quality code reviews and design feedback, and work to drive technical alignment in challenging areas.
• Lead the way to develop performant, scalable, and maintainable applications, ensuring high technical quality and operational excellence in your area.
• Collaborate closely with other teams, architects, product managers, and engineering leaders to align approaches and priorities.
• Continuously improve our software delivery processes and practices, staying updated with industry trends to influence our strategic direction and foster innovation.
• Provide technical and process guidance to your team, and participate in recruiting top talent for the organization.

What you’ll be bringing to the team

• Proven experience leading a team of developers through successful software projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to convey technical information to a wide variety of audiences.
• Solid understanding of development processes, testing, and CI / CD best practices.
• Experience delivering horizontally scalable applications and microservices.
• Passion for learning new things and desire to improve continuously.
• Solution-oriented and constructive mindset and ability to manage ambiguity.
• If you have a Frontend Development background :
• Advanced skills in Typescript, React
• Full-stack web development familiarity is a strong plus.
• If you have a Backend Development background :
• Advanced skills in Java : Spring Framework
• If you have a Mobile Development background :
• Advanced skills in Objective-c, Swift

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

• Interest in or experience with POS or eCommerce systems
• Experience building scalable SaaS solutions
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent

Who you are :

• You’re a hands-on team lead who enjoys staying involved in the codebase.
• You are a problem solver who does not shy away from tackling complexity and critical thinking.
• You have a strong will to learn, grow, and leave your comfort zone.
• You have great energy and passion for technology.

What’s in it for you?

Come live the Lightspeed experience!

• 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.
• Opportunities to learn, develop new skills, and expand your expertise.
• 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.

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

• Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)
• Health & Wellness Credit - expense up to 400 EUR per year towards your gym membership, yoga classes, a new bike or whatever else you do for your health
• Mental Health Support through the Modern Health App - whether it is meditation, coaching or counseling you need - each employee gets access to this platform
• People Experience - Our PX benefit allows you to work from pretty much anywhere in the world for 60 days a year
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