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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 forming a new squad at Lightspeed focused on building AI-powered tools and capabilities. This includes working with LLMs, agent frameworks, and other emerging AI technologies to build internal tools, extend our product suite with new AI features, and help other teams across the company adopt AI effectively.
You’ll be part of a highly collaborative and innovative team of developers, product managers, and designers. Your role will involve backend engineering—especially in our Spring Boot Java ecosystem—while also exploring and applying modern AI techniques to solve real problems.

REQUIREMENTS

• At least 5 years of experience in backend development
• Proven technical leadership
• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience in production environments
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and system architecture
• Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Comfortable writing well-structured, maintainable code
• Professional experience building or integrating AI-powered systems in production, including work with LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Claude), prompt engineering, or agent frameworks.
• Experience building internal tools or customer-facing AI features

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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WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Building and maintaining backend services and APIs in a Spring Boot Java environment
• Designing and implementing AI-powered tools and product features
• Collaborating with other teams to help them integrate LLMs and AI patterns
• Exploring and applying LLM capabilities such as summarization, classification, RAG, and prompt pipelines
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested backend code
• Ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability of the systems you build
• Staying up to date with developments in the AI space and sharing insights with your team