Senior Software Developer

7 months ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Lightspeed Full time

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We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer (Platform) to join our team in Auckland. In this role, you will use your technical knowledge and software/systems engineering skills to create innovative solutions and help elevate our performance. The Platform Team's work greatly boosts our merchants' business efficiency and makes it easier for engineers to reach their goals with mínimal hassle. You will be responsible for helping keep Lightspeed's infrastructure reliable and always available and ensuring developers have a smooth and satisfying experience, enabling them to work efficiently and deliver excellent products quickly.

Engineering at Lightspeed:
Lightspeed's retail platform runs on advanced, dockerised cloud infrastructure, handling 120,000 requests per minute and serving customers worldwide. We've been using microservices for a long time, creating over 140 of them. Unlike many companies that only talk about Continuous Delivery, we actually practice it every day, deploying updates around 130 times daily without any human intervention.

What you’ll be doing:
Technical Delivery:

- Write and review code, fix bugs, and respond to incidents.
- Troubleshoot and analyse root causes of production issues.
- Contribute to enhancing cloud infrastructure and provide technical documentation.

Planning and Architecture:

- Estimate and collaborate on plans with Platform Engineers.
- Automate tasks to reduce manual work and improve CI/CD reliability.
- Identify and eliminate inefficiencies to enable developers to ship code faster.

Learning and Helping Others:

- Assist engineering teams with service provisioning and requests.
- Facilitate training sessions and create documentation.
- Share technical knowledge and offer support to fellow engineers.

And a little bit of
- Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organisational objectives even if this means doing things that aren’t strictly within the scope of your role

Please note that you will take part in our On-Call rotation roster.

What you need to bring:

- Extensive development experience using various languages, preferably a mix of scripting (e.g., Python) and compiled languages (e.g., Go).
- Some exposure to public Cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, or OpenStack.
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible, and familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Proficiency in managing Linux systems and Bash scripting.
- Strong grasp of modern development strategies like CI/CD and DevOps principles, along with proficiency in managing RDBMS databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and working with git-based projects.
- Demonstrated track record of successes and failures contributing to better decision-making.
- Good understanding of Docker or container orchestration techniques.

We know that people are more than what’s on their CV. If you’re unsure that you have the right profile for the role... hit the ‘Apply’ button and give it a try

What’s in it for you?

Come live the Lightspeed experience...
- Ability to do your job in a truly flexible environment;
- Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs everyday;
- 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, healthy and (not) hungry:

- Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners)
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 60 days per year
- Flexible working policy
- Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year
- Mental health online platform and counselling & coaching services
- Paid leave and assistance for new parents
- Free LinkedIn Learning license
- Paid Volunteer day
- Complimentary breakfast and lunch options, along with fresh fruits, snacks, and beverages stocked in the office
- Exciting events hosted regularly by our Auckland Culture Club
- Secure, full-time parking facilities
- Brand new office space located in Newmarket (Auckland)
- Dog friendly environment

Do you need additional support during an interview?

Please note that we ask applicants to disclose any criminal convictions, and we conduct criminal record checks as part of our hiring process for this role.

Where to from here?
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day..

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where ever



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