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.

The Developer Tools Team has an ambitious charter to build the next generation of tooling that enables faster development at scale. The team is responsible for new engineers' experience bootstrapping their development environment(s), for the experience Square engineers have with internal CLIs, and for the Code Review experience at Square. Our team reports to the Developer Empowerment organization which ensures software development at Square is not only fast and efficient, but delightful.

You Will:

• Use metrics, customer interviews, pairing, surveys, and more to understand the daily friction points our customers (all Square engineers) face.
• Identify bottlenecks in the development experience and optimize pull request workflows.
• Build/Evaluate new tools to meet our customers' needs and reduce their toil.
• Contribute to monitoring, stability, and security of existing solutions.
• Communicate technical designs in writing and in person to multiple technical audiences.
• Undertake migrations to eliminate technical debt and to remove common bottlenecks holding up internal teams.
• Support users of our tools (during our on-call rotation)
• Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community that ships scalable tools and infrastructure.

• A computer science or engineering undergraduate degree or equivalent experience, including hands-on software development experience.
• Experience leading impactful, public and internal facing software products that have successfully been delivered to customers.
• 5+ years of experience developing in at least one of Ruby, Java, Python, Go .
• Strong verbal and nonverbal communication skills. You're adept at understanding complex technical concepts and helping teams make decisions to move forward as well as communicating those decisions up.
• Interest in working across multiple technical domains, including microservices, lambdas, and CLIs.
• Interest in building new systems from the ground up as much as improving existing systems.

Technologies we use and teach:

• ​​​​​​Languages: Ruby, Java, Go, Bash

• Operating Systems: Linux, macOS

• Other: AWS Lambdas, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker

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.