Software Development Manager
About The Position
Lightspeed Financial Services is looking for a Software Development Manager in North America to grow and lead their technical team within the Financial Services organization. This role reports to the Director of Financial Services Foundations and will involve leading, mentoring, and growing a high-performing software development team while cultivating an inclusive and inspiring working culture. The manager will guide developers in delivering mission-critical Financial Services products and services essential to Lightspeed’s long-term vision and growth. The ideal candidate will have a solid technical background, a proven track record of supporting and leading development teams, and experience delivering high-scale cloud-based software systems. They should enjoy problem-solving, removing blockers, and collaborating with Product teams and customer stakeholders. Effective and clear communication is essential for direction-setting and tracking team delivery in a fast-paced, agile environment. The role requires the candidate to be located in Canada and work within EST/EDT hours, with options for fully remote, partially remote, or fully office-based work environments.
Requirements
- Experience leading a team of developers through successful delivery of software products
- Experience delivering microservice-driven, scalable, cloud-based applications
- Strong working knowledge of Java or TypeScript
- Professional experience in agile development and continuous delivery best practices
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills
- Ability to personally coach, mentor and drive individuals and overall teams
- Strong passion for continuous learning and improvement
- A quality-driven mindset with a focus on software scalability and resilience
- A leader with strong people skills who can manage and represent your team
- A teacher and mentor helping individuals to grow and reach their full potential
- A communicator who can clearly convey requirements, best practices and status updates to both technical and non-technical audiences
- A problem-solver who embraces tackling complexity and removing roadblocks
- A decisive decision-maker who can handle change and ambiguity
Nice To Haves
- Experience in the Payments domain
- Experience in building scalable SaaS solutions
- Experience in full-stack web application development
- Solid knowledge of cloud services (AWS and GCP in particular)
- Project Management or Scrum master experience, or formal training
- Experience in test automation and/or DevOps engineering
Responsibilities
- Guiding, motivating and growing a team of software developers as they solve complex problems in the Financial Services domain
- Directly and indirectly managing a team through collaboration with, and mentorship of a Technical Lead Staff Engineer
- Working closely with architects, Product teams, engineering leadership and stakeholders to align on team priorities and roadmaps
- Identifying, communicating and removing impediments and risks to delivery, within the team and across Financial Services as a whole
- Planning and furthering the professional growth of individual team members, including 1-1s, performance reviews, ongoing feedback, goal-setting and promotions
- Reporting up to engineering leadership and stakeholders on team progress and status
- Finding and hiring top talent for your team and the wider organization
- Providing technical and process guidance to the team during delivery
Benefits
- Lots of autonomy
- flexible work culture
- possibility of remote work
- Opportunity to help shape the future of a new Product from technical, process and organizational perspectives
- Development of global products
- Exposure to modern and proven technology
- Opportunity to learn and expand your skill set
- Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles
- Amazing benefits & perks, including equity for all Lightspeeders
- Opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-growth company
- Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family
- continuous learning opportunities
- global mobility
- benefits designed to support you
- medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance
- RRSP plan and match
- paid parental leave top-up
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
