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Lightspeed Financial Services is looking for a Software Development Manager in North America to grow and lead our technical team within the Financial Services organization.

In this role, you will lead, mentor and grow a high-performing software development team and cultivate an inclusive, inspiring working culture. Under your guidance, developers will deliver Financial Services products and services that are mission-critical to Lightspeed’s long-term vision and growth.

We are looking for a leader with a solid, demonstrable technical background, who can earn the respect of developers with their knowledge and experience. The right leader partners with Product Management to translate business goals and stakeholder insights into clear team roadmaps—and holds the team accountable for delivering results. You will have a proven track record of supporting, mentoring, leading and growing a development team, and of delivering high-scale cloud-based software systems. You will be an effective and clear communicator who can direction-set and track team delivery in a distributed, fast-moving and rapidly-changing agile environment.

For this role, you should be located in Canada, and able to work within EST/EDT hours. We offer a choice of fully remote, partially remote or fully office-based work environments (in cities with local offices).

What you’ll be responsible for:

Manage, mentor and grow a team of software developers as they solve complex problems in the Financial Services domain

Working closely with Staff/Principal Engineers, P&T Leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to align on team priorities and roadmaps

In partnership with the Product Manager, accountable for setting the annual/quarterly OKRs, Roadmaps and for successful execution

Review and provide feedback on technical designs, ensure high-quality system design and implementation

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 Product/Engineering leadership and stakeholders on team progress and status

Participate in our hiring process to help find and hire top talent for your team and the wider organization

What you’ll be bringing to the team

Experience leading a team of developers through successful delivery of software products

Experience delivering microservice-driven, scalable, cloud-based applications

Experience with cloud services (AWS or GCP)

Strong working knowledge of Java or TypeScript or Ruby or Python

Experience partnering closely with Product Managers to build right objectives and roadmaps

Experience leading, triaging, and resolving critical incidents, while transforming post-incident insights into preventive corrective actions

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

Some additional things that would be a bonus:

Experience in the Payments domain

Experience in building scalable SaaS solutions

Experience in full-stack web application development

Experience in test automation and/or DevOps engineering

Who you are

Outcomes-oriented

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