Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Directory Infrastructure
- Full-time
Company Description
Job Description
An important part of Square's mission is to help merchants grow their businesses by giving them the tools to know, support, engage, and acquire their customers. The Customers Directory team builds products for consumers (Square Digital Receipts), merchants (Customers Directory), and developers (Customers API). We aim to provide great experiences on both sides of every customer interaction, and we're building the Customer Platform that Square's developers rely upon to build their products. You will report to the engineering manager alongside other data and infrastructure experienced engineers to help us modernize and scale our systems to meet the growing needs of Square's platform.
You Will:
- Work with the development teams responsible for building the products described above to decompose a monolithic service into microservices
- Design solutions to performance and scalability challenges as our customer data set continues to grow
- Engineer tools and services that improve operational efficiency and help our developers build features faster
- Build systems that coordinate customer data quality for Square's sellers
- 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:
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience with the complete development cycle from problem identification through delivery
- Experience in designing, operating, and optimizing large-scale distributed systems
- Excellent skills with data management and data system design: building data pipelines, migrating large datasets, capacity planning, sharding
- A passion for applying your knowledge to create remarkable solutions to your customers
- The ability to excel in a collaborative environment involving different team members and experts
Even Better:
- Experience with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
- Experience with data streaming platforms, such as Kafka or Pulsar
Technologies we use and teach:
- Go, Java, Ruby
- MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, BigQuery
- Hybrid - Private DataCenters, Google Cloud, AWS
- SignalFX, DataDog, Snowflake
- Dataflow, TensorFlow
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