Senior Staff Software Engineer

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Location

Auckland, New Zealand

Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our team in Auckland. In addition to building reliable systems and easy‑to‑use interfaces with clean, well‑tested code, you will also collaborate closely with peers in technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture decisions, helping to elevate our engineering culture and set a high bar for quality and scalability.

What You’ll Be Doing

• 30% - Building stuff : coding, code reviews, bug fixing, peer programming, incident response, reverse‑engineering tasks.
• 30% - Planning / architecture : estimating, collaborating with products, establishing MVP.
• 30% - Learning and teaching : chapter reviews, research and meetups, coaching and mentoring developers.
• 10% - Enabling : working on shared libraries, contributing to open source, defining, documenting and evolving best practices.
• Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organisational‑wide objectives even if this means doing things that aren’t strictly within the scope of your role.

What You Need To Bring

What You’ll Enjoy

Benefits

Equal Opportunity

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier‑free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Required Disclosure

Please note that we ask applicants to disclose any criminal convictions, and we conduct criminal record checks as part of our hiring process for this role.

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