Senior Software Engineer (System Architect) - Customers Directory

  • San Francisco, CA
  • Full-time
  • Alternate Location: Oakland, United States
  • Position open to remote: No

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

The Customer Engagement team’s mission is to help merchants grow their business by giving them the tools to know, support, engage, and acquire their customers. Our product suite includes CRM, omni-channel marketing (e.g. email, social, advertising), feedback and messaging, loyalty and rewards. We’re looking for a strong system architect who can help build the next generation of our Customer Data Platform which is used by Square and third party developers to build their customer-focused products.

You Will:

  • Design and build solutions that enable merchants to better understand and serve their customers

  • Drive Technical vision and excellence for team with 25+ engineers & multiple stakeholders

  • Serve as 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 access management system, scaling customer profile store and building personalization for first & 3rd party products

  • Build systems that analyze and improve customer data quality for Square’s sellers

  • Identify risks and devise solutions to performance and scalability challenges as our customer data set continues to grow

  • Build for the future by clearly 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 simultaneously

  • Ability to envision a technical approach/solution, socialize it and align stakeholders towards it

  • Passion for mentoring and upleveling team members

  • Ability to balance urgency to execute vs technically correct solution

  • Demonstrated success leading distributed engineering teams

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:

  • Go, Java

  • MySQL, BigQuery, Elasticsearch

  • Google Cloud, AWS

  • Dataflow, TensorFlow

Additional Information

At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)squareup.com. We will treat your request as confidentially as possible. In your email, please include your name and preferred method of contact, and we will respond as soon as possible.

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
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