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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!
Weâre looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join our Retail team in Auckland. You'll be be leading a team of 4-6 engineers by developing resilience and nurturing high-performance; leading by example and empowering others to do their best work.
What Youâll Be Doing
- You will be coaching, mentoring, guiding, and motivating a team of hard working engineers from all backgrounds. This includes all aspects of people management including hiring and training team members, and using tools like great 1:1s, peer programming, whiteboarding or training sessions.
- Youâll be helping your team deliver code in a high trust environment using continuous delivery, ensuring the team has a great delivery cadence and a strong connection with stakeholders (using demos, retros, blameless incident reviews, and the like).. While you wonât be as hands-on with the code as your team are, youâll still be writing code, helping with code reviews, and fixing bugs; as well as providing technical advice and documentation for systems/processes.
- Evaluating the performance of the technical architecture of our infrastructure and adopting industry trends will also be required
And a little bit ofâŚ
- A bit of leading by example and some hands on coding in Java/Golang
- Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organisational objectives even if this means doing things that arenât strictly within the scope of your role.
What You Need To Bring
Weâre a team of 90ish people located in Australia and New Zealand. Our team is responsible for new feature development in our flagship retail product, X-Series.
We're looking for a Senior candidate who has experience with the following:
- Significant experience in previous success and failure (âscarsâ), which help you make better decisions.
- Previous people leadership experience.
- Significant experience in working on major systems in one or more languages, ideally at more than one place.
- Experience within a similar industry is helpful but not crucial.
- Someone who is adaptable and knows how to build, change, and adapt to the needs of a company as it grows.
- Effective at nurturing relationships and managing multiple stakeholders.
We know that people are more than whatâs on their CV. If youâre unsure that you have the right profile for the role... hit the âApplyâ button and give it a try!
Whatâs 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 thatâs 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 thatâll 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
- LinkedIn Learning license
- Volunteer day
- Secure, full-time carpark
- Dog-friendly environment
- Free fresh fruits, snacks and drinks (and cake for your birthday!)
- Awesome office space located in Newmarket (Auckland)
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.
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 youâre 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 Montrealâs 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.
Founded in MontrĂŠal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.
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