\nTogether we're on a mission to power every property in the world, and to do that, we need to find the best talent in the world. That's why we're on the search for a superstar Senior Backend Engineer.\n\nAs a Senior Backend Engineer, you will implement new architectures, features, and best practices to scale the Cloudbeds platform. You will contribute to new efforts in service-oriented architectures, leveraging the latest, cutting edge technologies. As a Senior Backend Engineer, your goal is to deliver an exceptional experience to our customers all around the world with quality, performance, and scalability top of mind. Alongside your team, you will leverage the latest, modern SaaS and Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies across all layers of the software stack.\n\nLocation: US/Canada/LATAM- Remote\n\nWhat You Will Do: \n\n\n* As a member of the Booking Engine Team you will contribute towards supporting Cloudbeds’ Booking Engine Experiences\n\n* You will primarily be implementing features and improvements utilizing PHP and NodeJS\n\n* You will help lead discussions on complex technical concepts and requirements with both technical and non-technical stakeholders as a contributor to the backend architecture group\n\n* You should be familiar with writing clean, well-tested, well-documented, and elegant code\n\n* Write documentation for new and existing areas of our application\n\n* Contributing towards the ongoing initiative to migrate our core platform into microservices\n\n* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, build and ship high quality features\n\n* Mentor team members through practices like pair programming and code reviews\n\n* Re-architect and re-factor existing systems to align with project requirements\n\n* Help design the long term vision of our technology and new component architectures\n\n* Write clean, well-documented, and beautiful code\n\n* Promote best practices to improve the quality of our code and processes\n\n* Drive technical decisions within the team\n\n* Advocate for quality and test automation\n\n\n\n\nYou’ll Succeed With: \n\n\n* 5+ years of experience in one or more modern PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter)\n\n* 3+ Typescript and NodeJS\n\n* 3+ years working with and designing REST APIs\n\n* A strong business sense and ability to collaborate with leadership and non-technical stakeholders on highly visible projects\n\n* Expert knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, indexing, and searching technologies\n\n* A passion for data-driven decision-making (metrics, experiments, prototypes)\n\n* Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills\n\n* Strong knowledge and a passion for software best practices, design patterns, and testing\n\n* Strong teamwork, leadership, and time management skills\n\n* Passionate about agile practices and continuous improvement\n\n* Business-level English fluency required (verbal and written skills)\n\n\n\n\nNice to Have:\n\n\n* Experience designing and building microservices\n\n* Experience with gRPC and protobuf\n\n* Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS) \n\n* Experience working with a remote-first and globally distributed team\n\n* Travel industry experience is a plus (but definitely not required!)\n\n* Experience with Atlassian products (Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket)\n\n\n\n\n#LI-REMOTE #LI-SD1\n\n  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, PHP, Typescript, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSão Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

\nHello there! Thanks for dropping by 👋\n\nAre you actively on the lookout for a fresh career opportunity, or perhaps you're just exploring what's out there? Well, you've landed in the right spot!\n\nWe're in search of a Senior Backend Developer to join our Lightspeed Retail Team in North America. With Lightspeed Retail, you'll be at the helm of crafting software solutions that empower merchants with all the essential tools they need to flourish in the market. You'll be part of a dynamic product development squad that lives and breathes continuous value delivery. We're fervent about upholding software engineering best practices and constructing resilient, scalable solutions that cater to our valued customers.\n\nFor this role, we're seeking candidates located in Canada, available to work within EST/EDT hours.\n\nWhat you’ll be responsible for:\n\n\n* Developing and maintaining our migration tooling using Node.js, Serverless and AWS Lambda\n\n* Collaborating with product managers, developers and stakeholders as part of a cross-functional team to deliver features and functionality\n\n* Writing code that is clean, tested, maintainable, and efficient; encourage others to do so via meaningful code reviews \n\n* Extending your own skills by learning from and growing with the team\n\n* Be part of defining the product transformation as Lightspeed evolves its offerings to merchants & consumers globally\n\n* Helping us all celebrate our achievements and have fun together along the way!\n\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll be bringing to the team:\n\n\n* Strong proficiency with Node.js\n\n* Experience building integrations with third party APIs\n\n* Comfortable leading technical design discussions. Able to help make technical decisions, organize & mentor teammates to achieve common goals and to help plan delivery effectively\n\n* A strong sense of ownership for your features\n\n* Ability to analyze production environments, incidents and performance characteristics in order to improve existing features & systems and plan new ones\n\n* Passion for learning new things and a desire to continuously improve\n\n* Proven track record of delivering high-quality software projects on time\n\n\n\n\nEven better if you have hands-on experience with (but not necessary):\n\n\n* Knowledge of PHP or Ruby \n\n* Knowledge of front-end (React and Typescript preferred)\n\n* Experience with data transformation and relational (SQL) database\n\n* Knowledge of serverless computing\n\n* Familiarity with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure \n\n* Experience working in an Agile development environment\n\n* Real-time messaging systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc.)\n\n\n\n\nWho you are:\n\n\n* You are a problem solver who does not shy away from tackling complexity and critical thinking\n\n* You assess rather than assume\n\n* You have a strong will to learn, grow and get out of your comfort zone\n\n* You have a great energy and passion for technology\n\n\n\n\nWe know that people are more than what’s on their CV. If you’re unsure that you have the right profile for the role... hit the ‘Apply’ button and let’s have a chat!\n\nWhat’s in it for you?\n\nCome live the Lightspeed experience...\n\n\n* Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture and the option of fully remote work\n\n* Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs every day\n\n* Opportunity to make a difference; help merchants grow their businesses and become more successful by creating or improving products and addressing customer feedback\n\n* Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact\n\n* Development of very high traffic products, used at the global scale\n\n* Opportunities to learn and expand your skill set\n\n* Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family\n\n\n\n\n… and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry:\n\n\n* Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)\n\n* Flexible paid time off policy\n\n* Extended Healthcare benefits\n\n* Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year\n\n* Paid leave and assistance for new parents\n\n* Mental health online platform and counseling & coaching services\n\n* Volunteer day\n\n\n\n#LI-DS1 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Serverless, Cloud, PHP, Typescript, Senior and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nToronto, Ontario, Canada