Senior Software Developer

Lightspeed (Formerly SEOshop)

full-time

Posted on: 9/28/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada

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About the role

Develop and maintain the S-Series retail product using React, Ruby-on-Rails, NodeJS and Python
Collaborate with product managers, developers and stakeholders as part of a cross-functional team to deliver features and functionality
Write clean, tested, maintainable, and efficient code
Extend your skills by learning from and growing with the team
Support and mentor junior engineers on the team
Contribute to the development of innovative technical solutions to solve problems for customers
Analyse production environments, incidents, and performance characteristics
Participate in continuous delivery and uphold software engineering best practices
Help celebrate team achievements and maintain team culture

Strong proficiency in React or a similar front-end technology
Experience developing for the backend in at least one of Ruby, Python, NodeJS
Experience developing and shipping production-grade software
Strong sense of ownership for your features
Ability to analyse production environments, incidents and performance characteristics
Passion for learning new things and a desire to continuously improve
Proven track record of delivering high-quality software projects on time
Experience with relational (SQL) databases (preferred)
Familiarity with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure (preferred)
Experience working in an Agile development environment (preferred)
Experience with real-time messaging systems e.g. Kafka (preferred)
Candidates located in Canada and available to work within EST/EDT hours

Benefits

Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture and the option of fully remote work
Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs every day
Opportunity to make a difference; help merchants grow their businesses and become more successful by creating or improving products and addressing customer feedback
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
Opportunities to learn and expand your skill set
Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family
Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)
Flexible paid time off policy
Extended Healthcare benefits
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

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