Senior Software Engineer, Square Payroll

  • Full-time

Company Description

Square builds common business tools in unconventional ways so more people can start, run, and grow their businesses. When Square started, it was difficult and expensive (or just plain impossible) for some businesses to take credit cards. Square made credit card payments possible for all by turning a mobile phone into a credit card reader. Since then Square has been building an entire business toolkit of both hardware and software products including Square Capital, Square Terminal, Square Payroll, and more. We’re working to find new and better ways to help businesses succeed on their own terms—and we’re looking for people like you to help shape tomorrow at Square.

Job Description

Much in the same way that Square revolutionized payments, Square Payroll is radically altering how employees get paid and businesses manage their finances. Our mission is to make running a business simple and personal by leveraging automation and a best in class user-experience. Our small, highly collaborative team has already built many foundational features and are now focused on innovating and experimenting beyond a traditional payroll product. We want to truly transform the lives of people that make their living through our platform. Were an integral and growing part of the Square ecosystem and are leveraging our position to build products and features that are beyond the capabilities of our competitors.

We are a small, focused, and rapidly growing team with an abundance of growth and impact opportunities. We are building the best full featured payroll solution for small businesses with an emphasis on design and automation. At the same time we are doing this in an efficient and scalable way, making smart choices about how to automate critical functions.

The ideal candidate for Square Payroll is a product-minded, backend engineer who can help take an idea from prototype to launch.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Payroll team, you will:

  • Provide technical guidance to an amazing group of engineers. 

  • Help us to continually improve the experiences of our customers and operations teams through automation.

  • Build systems that collect and maintain customers sensitive data, while holding Square to the highest standards for security and compliance.

  • Design fault tolerant systems so the team can be brave and move fast, without ever negatively impacting our customers.

Qualifications

You have:

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent working experience (6+ years preferred).

  • Comfort with programming languages similar to Ruby, Python, Go, or Java.

  • Approach building and maintaining systems with rigor.

  • Excellent software engineering aptitude and the ability to provide technical mentorship and guidance.

  • Both built and refactored complex systems.

  • Huge plus if you have experience with decomposing into SOA, plus monitoring, & observability.

Additional Information

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