Since we first opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely – and so has Square. After enabling anyone to make 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.

Square’s rapidly growing financing platform, Square Banking, has revolutionized the way businesses obtain the funding needed to achieve their goals. Since our first product launch in 2014, Square Banking has extended more than $9 billion of business loans to hundreds of thousands of sellers.

Now, Square Banking is building a new suite of financial products for our sellers. You will join a new product team working to build an unreleased product that is expected to ship in late 2022. The new product will redefine the future of financial services for small businesses at Square. 

As a senior backend engineer on this team, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping our customer experiences from zero to one. You will work closely with individuals across engineering, product, design, and other functions to build customer experiences that are modern, clear, innovative and beautiful. In addition to contributing to product experiences, you will be supported to build reliable and scalable fin-tech systems that are both challenging and fun.

You will:

• Help lead major efforts to ship a new product to the Square population

• Work on products that are visible and directly impact our customers

• Work closely with product management, design and other internal teams to understand customer’s needs and improve their experience

• Oversee the entirety of your features, including component design, implementation, automated testing, and roll-out

• Define and develop clear and secure APIs that integrate multiple web/app clients with servers

• Design fault tolerant systems so the team can be brave and move fast

• Build well-designed, modern, reliable and scalable fin-tech systems

You have:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience

• Interest in building customer facing software projects

• Interest in working with other engineering teams and cross functional partners

• Interest in modeling complex domains and building resilient systems to support real world applications at scale

• Knowledge of, and experience with modern web service architecture and frameworks (Ruby on Rails, Django, Spring)

• Knowledge of modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (Javascript, Ember, Angular, React)

• Knowledge of software engineering design fundamentals and code organization

• A proven track record of executing complex, medium-to-large feature releases that can span multiple months

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 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.