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.

There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a business that is big, meaningful, and lasting. And we are helping sellers around the world do the same.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Frameworks Team, you would join a team responsible for providing service frameworks—the shared code every app uses—for our backend applications. These include integrations for feature flags, logging, metrics, service-to-service communication (RPC & REST), admin user interfaces, cron jobs, databases, job queues, leader election, and more. Engineering teams across Square rely upon these offerings to rapidly develop new features, safely release to production, and monitor analytics gathered from their applications. This team reports into the Developer Empowerment organization which ensures software development at Square is not only fast and efficient, but delightful.

You Will: 

• Identify, scope, and lead complex projects with wide impact across the company. Specifically,  you will:

  • Lead and organize developer community efforts to continually improve shared Ruby frameworks.

  • Help define and shape the Frameworks team’s roadmap.

• Maintain and improve service frameworks used by Ruby programmers to build back-end services

• Build or integrate frameworks enabling experimentation and safe release of new features into applications

• Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design

• Operate and enhance highly scalable microservices consumed by millions of devices across several international markets

• Mentor / lead the Rubyists within the Frameworks team

• Support and educate Square's community of Rubyists.

• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across the company including product, design, legal, support, and other engineering teams

• Provide design reviews for engineering teams across Square working with our frameworks

• Ability to break down complex projects into components or milestones that can easily be picked up by other engineers

• Demonstrated collaboration with co-workers on cross-functional teams and in other locations

• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers.

• Strong familiarity with Ruby and/or Rails.

• 5+ years of professional software development experience

Technologies we use and teach: 

• Java, Ruby, Go

• gRPC, Protocol Buffers, JSON

• MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis

• Kubernetes, YAML, Terraform

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.

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 TBD, 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. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.