Senior/Staff Software Developer - Python (M/F/X)

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Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!

As a Software Engineer/DevOps Engineer in the Developer Experience squad, you will support Lightspeed’s Hospitality product group in its mission to expand our reach into new markets and countries while enhancing our advanced hospitality commerce platform.

We are seeking a motivated Software or DevOps Engineer to work at the intersection of development and infrastructure. This means closely collaborating with all developers and our SRE team who manage the infrastructure. You will join a healthy and collaborative team, continuously improving our engineering practices and delivering state-of-the-art technology, all while keeping it fun. Above all, your work will change the way the world experiences hospitality!

In this role, you will focus on improving and creating best-in-class infrastructure, tooling, and automation that enable and empower our development team to deliver great features to our customers continuously. Your responsibilities will include:

• Optimizing and improving tooling and automation to create ephemeral preview environments for development, manual, and automated testing on Kubernetes
• Maintaining, improving, and evolving CI/CD configurations for building, pushing, and deploying existing and new microservices to Kubernetes clusters
• Managing, improving, and automating the orchestration of macOS virtual machines used for iOS test automation in CI
• Developing OpenAPI tooling and automation to manage API documentation for all microservices
• Building automation and tooling to reduce waiting times, boost productivity, and ensure a seamless experience when working on the product

What you’ll be responsible for

• Improve the experience while working on our product 
• Maintain the existing solutions to help developing our product and innovate new ways to improve our team’s developer experience
• Develop clean and highly maintainable code 
• Extend our continuous integration / continuous deployment environment
• Extend your very own skills by learning from and growing with the team

What you’ll be bringing to the team

• Excellent communication skills
• Strong testing mentality and practices
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes
• Proficiency with Helm, especially templating
• Solid experience with Docker, including Dockerfiles and Compose
• Fluent in Python, with knowledge of FastAPI, Flask, or Django
• Good scripting skills with Bash
• Experience with CI/CD, particularly CircleCI
• Familiarity with Cloud Service providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

Even better if you have, but not necessary

• specific experience with AWS services and familiarity with their concepts
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog and NewRelic
• Knowledge of Java
• Understanding of databases and data pipelines
• Experience with ArgoCD
• Experience with Ansible
• Familiarity with OpenAPI standard

Who you are

• You are a team player who likes to contribute to discussions and share your own experience. 
• You are self-motivated and can function effectively in a team environment with minimum supervision.
• You are always seeking improvement and progress.
• You are able to approach a problem methodically to identify and resolve technical issues.
• You are eager to make decisions and not afraid of making mistakes.

What’s in it for you

• Become part of the fantastic global hospitality team
• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture, and the possibility of remote work
• Development of very high traffic products, used at the global scale
• Exposure to modern and proven technology
• Opportunity to learn and expand your skillset
• Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles
• Excellent 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

To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

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 everyone belongs.

Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.