Software Engineering Manager

  • Full-time
  • Alternate Location: Washington D.C., United States

Company Description

Since we first opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely – and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take a payment and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together. So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, run a busy kitchen, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. And across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow all in one place.

Today, we’re a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex commerce operations, sellers just starting out, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers scale, so do our solutions. We all grow together.

About the Bill Pay Team:

We are envisioning a new standalone product and team to help small businesses organize and streamline payments to their vendors and suppliers. Why Bill Pay? Simply put, we see a pain point and believe we can provide a better solution. To run their operations, small businesses pay many bills/invoices and expenses, a.k.a. accounts payable (AP). These bills and invoices are usually paper-based and require payments to be made in a variety of methods, making the bill pay process tedious and time consuming. Similar to how Square has made the “getting paid” job easier for small businesses, we have an opportunity to build an equally remarkable solution for the “paying others” job.

In two years, we aspire to have launched and grown Square Bill Pay into a leading accounts payable solution for our target sellers. Bill Pay will deeply integrate with the Square ecosystem, especially the emerging banking products, to save sellers time and money with paying bills, and help them manage their cash flow better.

Job Description

As the founding Engineering Manager on this team, you’ll play a pivotal role in hiring and building out your team and laying down the foundation for successful collaboration and execution. You’ll be expected to lead the technical direction for the team and work across the company to get dependencies aligned and critical pieces of functionality built. You’ll also be working closely with cross-functional peers in Product and Design to iterate on an MVP and ensure we’re building the right set of features for launch. This is a greenfield opportunity to build and launch a product from the ground up!  

In this role you will:

  • Build an excellent team by hiring remarkable talent, coaching your team, fostering engineering decision-making, and applying your technical expertise to maintain a high bar

  • Collaborate with your cross-functional peers (PM, Design) to guide the product development process and help ensure we are building the right things at the right time

  • Oversee the success of your team's product and achieve quantifiable results

  • Report into a Senior Manager on the team and participate in essential technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across our product and operations teams

Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree in computer science or equivalent industry experience (8+ years preferred)
  • 2+ years experience directly managing engineers (including feedback, performance, hiring, and career guidance)

  • Technical background in building or maintaining products at scale

  • Experience collaborating with engineering leaders and cross-functional team members

 

Technologies we use and/or consider relevant for this role:

Languages: Ruby, Java

Frameworks: Rails, RSpec, Sidekiq, protobuf, gRPC

Infrastructure: MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Terraform, Envoy

Additional Information

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page. Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

 

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Perks

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

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD54566975, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.

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