[Hiring] Senior Staff Software Engineer @Lightspeed Commerce

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our team in Auckland. In addition to building reliable systems and easy-to-use interfaces with clean, well-tested code, you will also collaborate closely with peers in technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture decisions, helping to elevate our engineering culture and set a high bar for quality and scalability.

What you’ll be doing:

• 30% - Building stuff: Coding, code reviews, fixing bugs, peer programming, incident response, and reverse-engineering tasks.
• 30% - Planning/architecture: Estimating, collaborating with products, establishing MVP.
• 30% - Learning and teaching: Chapter reviews, research and meetups, coaching and mentoring developers.
• 10% - Enabling: Working on shared libraries, contributing to open source content, defining, documenting, and evolving best practices.
• Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organisational-wide objectives.

Qualifications

• Principal, Staff or tech lead level of experience as a Software Engineer, in fullstack, frontend or backend capacity.
• Deep understanding of modern web application development, tools and techniques.
• Experience in working on major systems in one or more languages.
• Experience delivering architectural change in large complex systems.

Requirements

• Extensive practical experience in either frontend or backend development.
• If focused on frontend, experience with modern frameworks to build user interfaces that consume APIs.
• If focused on backend, experience designing and building RESTful APIs, integrated with data storage layers.
• Understanding of core web concepts like HTTP, security principles, and frontend/backend interaction.

Benefits

• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture with remote work options.
• Genuine career growth opportunities within a continuously expanding company.
• Make a meaningful impact by helping merchants grow their businesses.
• Work on high-traffic products with a global user base.
• Opportunity to work alongside highly skilled engineers.
• 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.
• Premium cover if you sign up for health insurance with Southern Cross.
• Exciting events hosted regularly by our Auckland Culture Club.
• Subsidised public transportation to cover up to 75% of commuting costs.
• Secure, full-time parking facilities.
• Dog-friendly office environment.
• Complimentary breakfast and lunch options, along with fresh fruits, snacks, and beverages stocked in the office.
• Newly renovated office space situated in Newmarket (Auckland).