Staff Software Developer
Lightspeed Commerce, Inc. • toronto, on • Posted May 31, 2026
Position Overview
Responsibilities
Building stuff
– coding, code reviews, fixing bugs, peer programming, incident response, reverse‑engineering tasks, and more.
Planning / architecture
– estimating, collaborating with product, establishing MVP.
Learning and teaching
– chapter reviews, research, meetups, coaching and mentoring developers to level up.
Enabling
– working on shared libraries, contributing to open source, defining, documenting and evolving best practices for development in the team’s area of focus.
Avoiding pitfalls
– identifying potential risks in delivering complex features and proposing ways to mitigate them.
Qualifications
Staff‑level experience
– extensive experience as a staff engineer, leading large‑scale incidents, improving architectures, sharpening runbooks and building lasting institutional knowledge.
Systems thinking
– deep proficiency in at least...
Building stuff
– coding, code reviews, fixing bugs, peer programming, incident response, reverse‑engineering tasks, and more.
Planning / architecture
– estimating, collaborating with product, establishing MVP.
Learning and teaching
– chapter reviews, research, meetups, coaching and mentoring developers to level up.
Enabling
– working on shared libraries, contributing to open source, defining, documenting and evolving best practices for development in the team’s area of focus.
Avoiding pitfalls
– identifying potential risks in delivering complex features and proposing ways to mitigate them.
Qualifications
Staff‑level experience
– extensive experience as a staff engineer, leading large‑scale incidents, improving architectures, sharpening runbooks and building lasting institutional knowledge.
Systems thinking
– deep proficiency in at least...