Software Engineer (Frontend), Restaurants
- Full-time
Company Description
Job Description
The Restaurants team at Square is reimagining the hospitality industry to empower today's restaurants with simple, elegant software and efficient workflows. Restaurants today operate in an increasingly dynamic landscape, and we're building a modern product ecosystem to support this by using technology to unlock new workflows, revenue streams, and means of communication. Our focus is on efficiency, automation, and reliability: themes of paramount importance in a fast-paced environment where great hospitality is key.
As a frontend engineer on the Restaurants Kitchen team, you will develop elegant, intuitive solutions for restaurant owners to manage their business. Our management system is called Dashboard, a powerful web app used to build menus and customize workflows, set up and configure points of sales and kitchen display systems, view reporting and analytics, and more -- every aspect of running a food and beverage business. You’ll work together with other engineers on your team as well as cross-functionally with your designer and product manager to create the best solutions for our customers’ needs.
Our team started in NYC and we’re now thrilled to be expanding to new locations. Come join our small, fast-growing team in Toronto to be on the ground floor for our exciting growth!
What you will learn and do:
You'll create beautiful, unique products that empower anyone to run a restaurant
You'll design and build into Square Dashboard, working on features that power the products in our Kitchen and Restaurant ecosystem
You'll work closely and collaboratively with designers, product managers, and other engineers; very often across team boundaries
You'll ship reliable software through continuous integration, test automation, and in-depth code reviews
You'll find simple, elegant solutions to hard problems
You'll grow as an engineer, and as you do you'll lift others around you
Qualifications
What you bring to the team and to Square:
Motivation to build beautiful, intuitive products for the food and drink hospitality industry
Curiosity, and a desire to learn and teach
Empathy for your customers and colleagues
Eagerness to share your own ideas, and openness to those of others
Experience working in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks a benefit, but not a requirement
Familiarity with back end technologies a bonus (we use Java, Ruby, and Go)
Technologies we use and teach:
ES6 JavaScript
Ember JS
SCSS
Ruby on Rails
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