Software Development Manager

About the role

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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