Android Software Engineer, Retail Experience

  • Full-time

Company Description

Since we opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely, and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together.

To solve this problem, we expanded into software and built integrated solutions to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. 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 in one place. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.

Today, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.

Job Description

Retailers have struggled too long with clunky, outdated and disconnected tools. Even as mammoth Retail and e-commerce forces threaten to disrupt smaller merchants, we are empowering those merchants with simple and elegant solutions to complex problems - like predictive analytics and fluid, omni-channel capabilities to meet customers wherever they are - to always make the sale. 

Square for Retail is a growing product team based out of New York, San Francisco, Toronto, and Atlanta, with many fully remote team members as well. Across our Point of Sale applications on Android and iOS and a web-based dashboard, the Retail Experience team builds and enhances the experiences for end-to-end checkout, settings, rewards / loyalty, customer management, and integrations with other applets at Square. Our goal is to help and retain Retail sellers as they run and grow their businesses. We are relentlessly customer focused, and iterate quickly using a build-measure-learn approach.

You will:

  • Develop for our custom, purpose-built hardware: Square Register, with its dual displays, and the portable Square Terminal;
  • Be a part of creating an innovative product that brings superpowers to sellers;
  • Build and test client software with complex server, network and hardware interactions;
  • Craft pixel-perfect, intuitive UI that delights our sellers with its ease of use;
  • Work with a world-class team of experienced and dedicated engineers, product managers and designers;
  • Deliver features to our growing base of subscribers, shipped at a rapid cadence

Qualifications

You have:

  • 2+ years of Android development experience, and an excellent command of engineering fundamentals.
  • Interest in learning (and helping us evolve) client engineering practices at scale
  • Unwavering commitment to customer experience and the quality of your work
  • An eagerness to share your ideas, and openness to those of others

Technologies we use and teach:

  • Kotlin for development
  • Application architecture based on Square’s modern open source library, Workflow
  • Espresso UI testing
  • Protocol buffers for network transport
  • Gradle for our build environment
  • Open source libraries like LeakCanary, Jetpack Compose, Dagger, Anvil, Okhttp, and more

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.

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.

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