Senior Software Developer, Ruby

Lightspeed (Formerly SEOshop)

full-time

Posted on: 9/28/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Florida, Rhode Island, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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AWSCloudDockerJavaKafkaKubernetesNoSQLRedisRubySDLCSQL

About the role

Creating, extending, and maintaining critical systems across a number of products in collaboration with the existing team
Developing clean and highly maintainable code
Engaging with our Product Managers, Architects, Developers, and other stakeholders to define unambiguous, pragmatic solutions
Engaging during incidents with a sense of responsibility to our customers and your team
Supporting Lightspeed's Hospitality product group to expand into new markets and countries while enhancing Cloud POS
Collaborating with global team of developers using cutting edge technologies to help restaurant owners provide best experience to customers

3+ years experience developing and shipping production-grade Ruby and Java systems
3+ years experience developing within AWS or similar Cloud environments
Solid understanding of computer systems and service architectures
Empathy to view situations from our customers perspectives
Strong desire to collaborate with other developers, be that pairing, code reviews, whiteboard sessions, etc
A strong sense of ownership of all aspects throughout the SDLC and beyond
Ability to analyze production environments, incidents and performance characteristics to drive remediation, both with your team and with collaboration of stakeholders
Demonstrated experience creating unit and integration tests for complex systems
Eagerness to improve existing systems and plan new ones, pragmatically
Experience with eventual consistency and distributed client models (nice to have)
Experience in microservice architectures (nice to have)
Experience working in an Agile development environment (nice to have)
Experience with container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc) (nice to have)
Experience with real time messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc) (nice to have)
Experience with both relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) datastores (Dynamo, Redis, Firestore) (nice to have)
A keen interest in API design (nice to have)
Computer Sciences degree or equivalent (nice to have)

Benefits

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RubyJavaAWSunit testingintegration testingmicroservice architectureAgile developmentKubernetesDockerSQL

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Computer Science degree