Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Team Management

  • 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

As Square has grown, so have our sellers – going from businesses with just a few employees, to many (sometimes hundreds or thousands!). Team Management provides business owners and managers with the tools they need to manage their entire team. You will report to the engineering lead and will work on providing permission functionality within Point of Sale and Square Dashboard, plus allowing sellers to track their team's time with time cards. Team Management helps give our sellers the peace of mind that their business is running smoothly, even if they're not physically present.

To learn more about the Team Management product: https://squareup.com/us/en/point-of-sale/features/team-management

You Will:

  • Develop solutions that allow merchants to better manage their teams
  • Develop new best practices for team to achieve operational excellence
  • Uplevel the technical design and product understanding for the team and lead lower level Software Engineers including Senior team members
  • Collaborate and provide guidance on multiple projects at any given time. 
    • Sample projects include designing & scaling customer profiles
    • Build personalization for 1st & 3rd party products
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    • Promote cross team technical efforts and our most complicated technical problems
    • Build systems that allow sellers to better connect with their employees
    • Identify risks and design solutions to performance and scalability challenges as our customer data set continues to grow
    • Build for the future by communicating the cost-benefit of a given solution and advocating for the best path forward
    • Embrace opportunities to stretch yourself by learning new technologies

Qualifications

You Have:

  • 5+ years of experience developing production software
  • Advanced Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent experience in lieu of degree
  • Experience leading or contributing to medium-to-large feature releases; 
  • 5+ years of experience building and working with APIs to deliver product features
  • Experience building component-based web apps with modern JavaScript front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Vue, Angular, or Ember).
  • Natural curiosity and desire to build products our merchants depend on.

Technologies we use and teach:

  • Backend: Ruby on Rails, Java
  • Client: ES6 JavaScript, Ember JS, SCSS 

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. 

Learn more about our efforts to promote inclusion and diversity at block.xyz/inclusion

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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