Software Development Manager

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by 👋 Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place! 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. Reporting to the Director of Financial Services Foundations, you will help us 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. 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 enjoy problem-solving and removing blockers to the team’s progress, and will have experience collaborating with Product teams and customer stakeholders. 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: - 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 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 - Strong working knowledge of Java or TypeScript or Ruby or Python - 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 - 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

Who you are

• 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 What is in for you - Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture and 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 #LI-SS3 At Lightspeed, your growth is our priority.

Who we are

• Highlight concrete experience with cloud‑native, microservice architectures (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Spinnaker) in your résumé and be ready to walk interviewers through a recent end‑to‑end delivery that involved scaling a financial‑services product under strict latency and compliance constraints.
• Prepare a 5‑minute “technical leadership portfolio” that showcases two specific cases where you mentored engineers to adopt best practices (code reviews, test‑driven development, secure coding) and the measurable impact on delivery speed or defect reduction; include screenshots of team velocity charts or GitHub metrics to substantiate results.
• Research Lightspeed’s recent fintech acquisitions and product announcements (e.g., their point‑of‑sale financing API) and weave those insights into your interview answers, demonstrating how you’d align the development roadmap with the company’s “mission‑critical” growth vision and regulatory requirements in Canada.
• During the behavioral interview, use the STAR format to describe how you built an inclusive culture in a fully remote team—focus on concrete actions like setting up async “virtual coffee chats,” establishing clear OKRs, and implementing bias‑free hiring rubrics—because Lightspeed explicitly values an inspiring, diverse work environment.
• If the role progresses to an offer, come prepared with market data for senior engineering managers in Canadian tech (e.g., average total compensation $180‑$220 k with 10‑15 % equity) and propose a package that includes a performance‑linked bonus tied to delivery milestones for the Financial Services platform, reinforcing your results‑oriented mindset.