Senior Software Engineer (System Architect) - Customers Directory
- Full-time
Company Description
Job Description
The Customer Engagement team's mission is to help Sellers grow their businesses by giving them the tools to know, support, engage, and acquire their customers. Our product suite includes Customer Directory - an omnichannel CRM platform, Square Marketing (e.g. email, social, advertising), Feedback / Direct Messaging, Digital Receipts, Loyalty, Gift Cards and Coupons. You'll report to the engineering lead and work on full stack engineering to help build the next generation of Product & Platform solutions that help our Buyers to centrally manage their data with Square in a privacy centric way and Sellers to conveniently manage their business by using our network of Buyers to provide a remarkable and delightful experiences to their customers.
You Will:
- Develop solutions that allow merchants to better serve their customers
- Guide Technical vision and excellence for team with 25+ engineers and multiple partners
- Be a leader upleveling the technical and design understanding of the team
- Collaborate and provide guidance on multiple projects at any given time. Sample projects include designing scaling customer profile store and building personalization for first & 3rd party products
- Build systems that coordinate customer data quality for Square's sellers
- Identify risks and design solutions to performance and scalability challenges as our customer data set continues to grow
- Build for the future by communicating the cost-benefit of a given solution and advocating for the best path forward
- Embrace opportunities to stretch yourself by learning new technologies
Qualifications
You Have:
- 10+ years of software development experience on a Services or Platform team
- 3+ years of experience as tech lead or system architect
- An advanced degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- Experience in designing and productionizing large-scale distributed systems built around big data
- Broad mindset to understand overall system architecture and design end-to-end solutions
- Experience overseeing customized development for multiple projects
- Experience envisioning a technical approach/solution, socialize it and align partners towards it
- Passion for mentoring and upleveling team members
- Experience balancing urgency to implement vs technically correct solution
Even Better:
Experience with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure is a plus
Experience working as tech lead on team which has both product and platform exposure
Technologies we use and teach:
Languages: Javascript, Java, Go, Ruby
Frameworks: JS Client - Ember, React, Services - gRPC / JAX-RS REST
Databases: MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, BigQuery
Infrastructure: Hybrid - Private DC / AWS / Google Cloud, SignalFX, DataDog, Snowflake
Additional Information
Perks
At Square, we want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness perks
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Learning and Development resources