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Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!
We’re looking for a Intermediate Mobile Developer (React Native) to join our team in Auckland. As an essential part of our innovative team, you will help create a cutting-edge mobile app designed to streamline restaurant operations and boost guest experiences. This app will give restaurant managers real-time insights, improve efficiency, and support better decision-making, playing a major role in advancing Lightspeed's mission to enhance commerce for our merchants and their customers.
You will be consistently contributing meaningful features, improvements, and bug fixes to ensure continuous project progress and value addition. The ideal candidate for this role understands and prioritises the needs of end-users, ensuring the product delivers exceptional value with high code quality with no critical defects in production.
What you’ll be doing:
- Play a key role in creating and implementing features for a cutting-edge mobile app for hospitality operators, making a positive impact on thousands of restaurant managers and staff each week.
- Contribute to developing proof of concepts and prototypes, and assist in building a scalable, testable, and maintainable app ready for production.
- Actively participate in pair programming, team stand-ups, planning sessions, new feature kick-offs, and demo sessions.
- Collaborate with the Design, Quality Assurance, and Support teams as well as other cross-functional teams to resolve issues and ensure a strong focus on User Experience (UX).
- Help translate requirements into detailed plans and provide effort estimates for completion.
What you need to bring:
We're looking for a candidate who has experience with the following:
- Proven experience developing and launching production-grade React Native and TypeScript applications for Android and/or iOS platforms.
- Prior experience debugging native apps for iOS using XCode and Swift, or for Android.
- Understanding of mobile app architectures and connectivity considerations.
- Previous experience with unit and automated UI testing tools such as Jest, Mocha, Playwright, Detox, Appium, or Maestro.
- Knowledge of release/build/deployment processes, including navigating App Store and Play Store requirements and challenges.
We 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 give it a try!
What’s in it for you?
Come live the Lightspeed experience...
- Ability to do your job in a truly flexible environment;
- Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs everyday;
- Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact.
… and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry:
- Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners)
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 60 days per year
- Flexible working policy
- Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year
- Mental health online platform and counselling & coaching services
- Paid leave and assistance for new parents
- Free LinkedIn Learning license
- Paid Volunteer day
- Complimentary breakfast and lunch options, along with fresh fruits, snacks, and beverages stocked in the office
- Exciting events hosted regularly by our Auckland Culture Club
- Secure, full-time parking facilities
- Brand new office space located in Newmarket (Auckland)
- Dog friendly environment
Do you need additional support during an interview?
At Lightspeed, we acknowledge that we face the unique challenge of engaging with and hiring diverse talent from marginalised communities with different personal or cultural norms. For many candidates from these underrepresented groups, a job interview can be an extra stressful or challenging experience. Taking this nuanced perspective into consideration, Lightspeed is pleased to offer Supported Interviews! This means you’re welcome to bring whānau or a support person along with you during any Lightspeed interview (excluding initial recruiter phone call). This ensures you have the best opportunity to display your full range of strengths.
To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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.
Where to from here?
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.
Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.
Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.
Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.
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Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed’s one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale and provide exceptional customer experiences.
The cloud solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financing and connection to supplier networks.
Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality and golf businesses in over 100 countries.
