Staff Software Developer

Lightspeed (Formerly SEOshop)

full-time

Posted on: 9/28/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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AngularAWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptNode.jsReactRubyTypeScript

About the role

Lead others in your team & contribute towards enabling timely delivery of key initiatives on the roadmap, with minimal supervision
Collaborate with Product, Design, Operations & other functions/teams to align the relevant stakeholders
Decomposing high level requirements into development tasks and work items for delegation
Evolving the technical architecture for the systems your team owns
Partnering with other technical leaders across the organization to evolve the overall technical ecosystem
Bringing a strong commitment to engineering excellence spanning areas like code quality, observability and production operations among others
Initiating and contributing to continuous improvement of our software delivery processes and practices
Mentoring your team members and identifying and encouraging areas of growth and career development
Participating in finding top talent for your team and the organization

Expertise in engineering and computer science fundamentals
Experience developing scalable, reliable applications on the cloud (we use GCP & AWS).
Expert programming skills in Ruby, TypeScript or Javascript. Our current tech stack is Java, TS/JS, Node JS React & Angular.
Experience leading multi-quarter, cross team initiatives and feature work from design to production deployment
Strong sense of ownership, willingness to take informed risks and champion a blame-free culture
Curiosity and a deep desire for continuous learning
An ability to see the forest from the trees
Passion for software development and a customer-focused mindset
Team player who can work with, and help grow, other developers
Understanding the need for constant improvement, self-growth, and accountability

Benefits

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